Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

One who doesnt throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

An optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist sees the whole.

It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.