E. B. White Quotes

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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• My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Life
  • Age
  • Child

• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Reverence

• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• Bad ballplayers make good managers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Managers

• I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Live
  • Like
  • Never

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Great
  • Right
  • Shine

• For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.

  

  Jorge Garcia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm not going to change; I'm going to keep grinding. I'm going to do all I can to win.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Change
  • Win
  • Grinding

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Great
  • Sports

• The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Change
  • Run