Famous Quotes

"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."

Leslie Fiedler on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Leslie Fiedler

• "All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."

• "I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."

• "Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

• "I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."

• "It's funny to be a critic."