E. B. White Quotes

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • You
  • Hell
  • Half

• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Pictures

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Artist
  • Ability

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Long
  • Reading
  • Abuse

• Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • School
  • Truth
  • High

• I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Done
  • Amazing
  • Adoption

• Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

  

  Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Problem
  • Discussion
  • Businesses

• People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Desire