E. B. White Quotes

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

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• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Education
  • Football
  • Fight

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Coffee

• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Done
  • Day
  • Government

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying 'yes,' then 'no,' then 'yes.' … Men are still expected to initiate, but now, if they do it badly, they could go to jail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • World
  • Real

• We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

  Charles B. Rangel

• All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.

  

  Christopher Guest

• I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

  

  Luke Evans

• Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Air

• I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'

  

  Anna Akana
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Emotional

• Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

  

  Donald E. Westlake

• At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

  

  Alan Seeger
  • Earth
  • Youth

• When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Space

• It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

  

  Jake T. Austin
  • Important
  • Father
  • Firefighter

• I don't want to think too much about me.

  

  Andrea Arnold

• Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

  

  E. B. White
  • Cleaning