E. B. White Quotes

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

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• My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sick
  • Kitchen
  • Go

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• I am a Zionist.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Zionist

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Down

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • She
  • Mad

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

  

  Craig Kilborn

• I don't care what someone believes. I don't care what nationality they are. But if someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Learn
  • Drugs
  • Believes

• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Air
  • Laughing
  • Lips

• The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Air
  • Memories