E. B. White Quotes
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.E. B. White
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney -
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn -
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane -
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga -
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine -
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
Ramez Naam -
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
Dana Carvey -
Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
Camille Paglia -
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
Taylor Swift
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
Dan Quinn -
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
Laura Dekker -
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
Gabrielle Zevin -
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Barry Humphries -
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
Barkhad Abdi
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How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.
Marcus Aurelius -
An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.
Napoleon Hill -
I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.
Anne Bancroft -
I have confidence in my players around me - my offensive line, my running backs, my wide receivers, and the defense and special teams.
Chad Kelly -
In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.
Jesmyn Ward -
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
E. B. White