E. B. White Quotes

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Just

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• The 100m is never stressful.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Never
  • Stressful

• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Powerful
  • Secret
  • Empty

• But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Together

• I just became less rebellious with clothes, and today, I can slip into appropriate attire according to what the occasion requires, but off the red carpet, I am not that particular about what I wear, and comfort is my main priority.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Today
  • Red
  • Priority

• At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Small
  • Light
  • Eight

• Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sometimes
  • Blue
  • Confused

• You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Calm

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English