E. B. White Quotes

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

E. B. White

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Want
  • Security

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • America
  • Hair
  • Color

• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Me
  • Ask
  • Remain

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • Trying

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Moving
  • Practice

• Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Giving

• In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

  

  Bruce Dern
  • Eyes

• Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind