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.E. B. White
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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 -
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 -
I'm a proud family man.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
Idina Menzel -
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 -
The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
Walter Gropius
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven -
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 -
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
Gabrielle Aplin -
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey -
The 100m is never stressful.
Usain Bolt
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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
John C. Maxwell -
Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.
Dwayne Hickman -
“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
Gary Marcus -
Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
Caity Lotz -
I'm English. All we do is blush.
Joanna Coles -
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White