Holmes: You’re a doctor. In fact, you’re an army doctor.
Watson: Yes.
Holmes: Any good?
Watson: Very good.
Holmes: Seen a lot of injuries, then? Violent deaths?
Watson: Yes.
Holmes: Bit of trouble, too, I bet.
Watson: Of course, yes. Enough for a lifetime… far too much.
Holmes: Want to see some more?
Watson: Oh, God yes.
Tag: experience
Mary Richards: I’m an experienced woman. I’ve been around. Well, all right, I might not’ve been around, but I’ve been…nearby.
You know more of a road by having travelled it then by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Jack: What’s happening to me, Warnie? I can’t see her anymore. I can’t remember her face.
Warnie: I expect it’s shock.
Jack: I’m so afraid of never seeing her again–thinking that suffering is just suffering after all. No cause, no purpose, no pattern.
Warnie: I…I don’t know what to tell you, Jack.
Jack: Nothing, there is nothing to say. I know that now. I’ve just come up against experience, Warnie. Experience is a brutal teacher…but you learn. My God you learn.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.
Obi Wan Kenobi: In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Sonja: Sex without love is an empty experience.
Boris: Yes, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.
The things we remember the best are those better forgotten.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.