E. B. White Quotations

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

There are buildings that some of your children are in that are older than Joe White. That's unacceptable, those buildings needs to be renovated.

We struggled against a good football team but I'm proud of the way we responded and very pleased with the way we ran the ball.

We?re not going to push it too far this early in the season.

There is no presumption here that Mr. Palmeiro committed perjury, but we just have an obligation to determine that,

Whether it's the cotton gin or the Internet, we've added value by innovating. Innovation and free trade have served us very well.

We responded to the area but we were unable to locate the suspect?s vehicle,

What this demonstrates is that Iraq is really skating on the edge of chaos, that things can go very bad very quickly.

We would still buy it at these levels, ... The stock has excellent earnings momentum right now. Great product pipeline. So, this is a stock that we'd still want to be involved in.

What's sad about it is that, considering the destruction in the country, with looting and so on, we needed every dollar for reconstruction.

Unless the owner can prove a hardship that prevents him or her from complying with zoning rules, a variance is certainly far from being a sure thing.

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Working with her before and again now, you can't beat the experience of working with someone who has been number one.

We're pleased with the acquisition of Desert Fire. This acquisition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to purchase successful companies that fit our lines of business in vibrant markets.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year

With these stronger studies suggesting no benefit, that's pretty much the end of the road. People need to really focus in on using something else.

With two minutes left in the game, we thought we weren't going to get any points.

We've turned down many people that need apartments right now. If they can wait for a few months, we're willing for them to put in an application and work with us.

We have security alarms; it's like trying to rob a bank, we know when someone tries to get in here. You'd have to be pretty naive to think a place like this didn't have alarms.

We were asked to look at how we could help the residents maintain their parking.

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

We'll see if that's sustained or if it's an anomaly because people choked at the $3 gas.

We are also supposed to get two more trucks with ice and water today, ... But I'm crossing my fingers because I don't know that that will happen since no one from FEMA or MEMA or anybody has bothered to check on the town of Richton. I know the Gulf Coast is devastated, but if we don't take care of our elderly they are going to die and then our town will be devastated.

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

We want something that will wake up Broad Street, something that complements the Peace Center and its activity.

We're adapting a lot of material, but we're also doing a lot of very specific material to the various cultures we're targeting.

We're 72. We're getting to the age where anything can happen to you.

We've run that play, some version of it, close to 40 times this year,

We need citizens who may need assistance in evacuations to reach out to friends, family and neighbors, ... There will not be enough government vehicles to go and evacuate everybody in every area.

We need citizens who may need assistance in evacuating to reach out to friends, family, relatives, neighbors. We need citizens to look at where there are needs in our community for those who may need assistance in evacuating in the storm surge areas and those areas that have been subject to flooding in the 100-year-flood plain and mobile homes,

There are people on all sides of me that I know and trust. I know they're watching out for my kids as if they were their own.

We're glad to be in the conference tournament finals and have a shot at winning it.

We're concerned some trustees are not working well with the administration.

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

sharks are just something you've got to deal with.

Seniors are scared to death with the inordinate amount of information, and they are intimidated by the penalty if they don't make a choice by May 15.

Security is different in different cultures as you go around the world. In some countries, a good security system may be a dog behind a fence.

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

She's every coach's dream. She's competitive. She's smart. She works hard. I couldn't ask for anything more from her.

She's always been an incredible shooter, but the last two years she has become a very strong defender. She is not a one-dimensional player by any means. When she is making baskets like (she did this week), it changes the whole flow of the game.

Oh yeah, I did it again, I had too. I love this stadium.

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

She would request one of these options, but it's up to the military judge to grant the request,

Shea is a tremendous free throw shooter and, in the late going, if we can get the ball in her hands and she gets to the free-throw line, we know we?re going to score.

She's a good captain. When you are that good (at running), you get that kind of respect right off the bat. She's a good person - a nice young lady. She's easy to approach, but when you run like she does, she automatically gets respect.

She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time.

She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.

She inspired me to start running and getting back into shape. She knew that it was hard for me to get to the gym, so she gave me advice and help.

Most viewers probably have no idea what the difference is between the two awards. It takes a very discerning ear to tell you the difference.

One disadvantage we have is we really don't know what is going to happen with traffic and parking until people start using the facility.

Obviously, we look at all the federal employee issues pretty closely.

One thing we will be focusing on in 2006 is improving our services to small businesses. We're setting up feedback groups to help small businesses and we plan to launch more programs specific to them.

My dad told me that rankings are nothing but a number. We've got respect for them. We are just as good as them.

Monday's CPI number could go a long way toward getting us a better sense of direction, ... And perhaps what we'll see on Monday is a return back to the normal levels of consumer price index inflation.

My goal this season is to make it into the regional finals. I have more desire and strength this season and feel I am ready.

My head kept moving on the shot. I tried to correct it, but it wasn't working. He punished me.

Maybe it was the Penn State game - and he did it playing tailback,

Numerous times we've had no one show up after the hour. Students need to be on time. They miss their education if they're not at school on time.

Now the family has the opportunity to move forward with the grieving process.

People who would never buy otherwise decide they might as well get in the game.

People would be stupid not to keep coming out to their favorite place.

PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can. They're comparing chickens to black people?

My team fought hard. I don't like losing. Everybody can't win all the time.

Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.