E. B. White Quotes

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Just

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Dance

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  

  William Law
  • Reason
  • Pride
  • Ambition

• I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English