Quotes About Experience

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Identity is above all else the product of shared experience, so Hip Hop let the boroughs develop new identities with their own styles and stars, all connected by subways bombed by artists like Lee Quiñones, Dondi, and Zephyr.

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.

Japanese culture is something I'm heavily inspired by. I was actually stationed for a few years in Japan with the Navy and I fell in love with a lot of that culture, especially when it comes to fashion and art.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

My father was in the navy and so while he was deployed soon after I was born we moved to Australia.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.

In 2014, my first year as an England player, I got booed by some India fans at Edgbaston every time the ball went near me.

For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.