E. B. White Quotes
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
-
In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
-
There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
-
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
-
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
-
My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
-
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
-
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
-
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
-
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
-
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
-
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
-
My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.
-
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
