E. B. White Quotes

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

E. B. White

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Shoes
  • Start

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.

  

  Nate Powell
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Body

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Feeling
  • Climate
  • Conventions

• I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Cool

• I hate the domestic life.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Domestic

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Great
  • Men
  • Writing

• In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • America
  • Bad
  • Today

• It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Real
  • Character
  • Challenge

• When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

  

  Deryck Whibley Sum 41
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Green

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad