E.B. White Quotes
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.
It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.
I have learned that love is often strongest where it is most threatened. Where it is most terrorised is where it most profusely grows.Lillian WhiteI Would Send You Poppies
But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
Vegas is famous for a lot of things, and bad marriages are one of them. Margo and I are proof that you can make this work. It just takes a little effort.
If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.
I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.
I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, 'I'm not even a 10th of this man.'
The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.
