E. B. White Quotes

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

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• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Home
  • Job

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go

• Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Experience
  • War
  • Piece

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Future
  • Song
  • Style

• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Up
  • Two
  • Looking

• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Want
  • Science

• When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Find
  • First
  • Everything

• The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, The body, it touches. The captain and his menAre one and the sailor and the sea are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Character
  • Sea

• The Nobodies; Cied in Mother Jones Magazine (1991) The Book of Embraces. March-April 1991. p. 71

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Book
  • Mother
  • March

• The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Nature

• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Greatest

• The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti

• To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

  

  John Ridley
  • Up
  • Black
  • Food

• From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Fear
  • Always
  • Kindness

• Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

  

  E. B. White