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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. ”
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. ”
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. ”
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. ”
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ”
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ”
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else. ”
Until space tourism is a destination-based business (e.g. flights to a private space station or to the moon), will flyers pay to fly more than once after having earned their astronaut wings? The answer to this is likely very dependent on the experience itself. ”
My brother and I always intended to get back into acting. We just wanted to take a break because, I think, coming off of the seven-year run of 'The Suite Life,' we wanted to detach ourselves from that idea a little bit. ”
I play Zack Martin on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' ”