E. B. White Quotes

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Simple
  • Boy
  • Bronx

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Family
  • May

• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Present

• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Everything

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Simple

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Simple
  • New

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Universe
  • Corners
  • Lift

• A falcon is the perfect hunter.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Perfect

• As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • House
  • Player

• I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Real

• I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Why

• Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

  

  E. B. White
  • Beautiful
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  • Universe