E. B. White Quotes

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

E. B. White

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• I get bored easily.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Bored
  • Get
  • Easily

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Slice

• I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Money
  • Day
  • Mom

• If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Like
  • Abraham Lincoln

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I just like playing unique characters that I love.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Like
  • Unique

• I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • Women
  • Rightful place

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Great
  • American
  • Value

• This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

  

  E. B. White
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