It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.
While I've been in Congress, I've never experienced a whiff of anti-Semitism. In my life, I have experienced very little.
We have a great musical sequence in episode five of 'Smash' called 'Let's Be Bad,' and it probably is the closest to 'Chicago' that I think any of us have ever experienced.
Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?
I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.
It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.
I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. Its like a cosmic do-over.
I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.
I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.