E. B. White Quotes

The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Myself

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• Beauty is not just physical.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Beauty
  • Just
  • Physical

• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Amazing
  • Dating
  • Skills

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• 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

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.

  

  Brock Adams
  • World
  • Information
  • Library of Congress

• It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Long
  • Game
  • Soldier

• And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Long
  • Enemy
  • Differences

• You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Done
  • Future