E. B. White Quotes

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.

E. B. White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

Topics

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If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

Jeff Bridges

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You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Stefan Edberg

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I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Travis Barker

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Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.

Tony Danza

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For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.

Tom Sturridge

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All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

Roger Ebert

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As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Roger Penrose

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Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'

Mary Beard

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I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.

Molly Harper

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Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Craig Bruce

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I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

Clara Hughes

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