E.B. White Quotes

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

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.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

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.

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.

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

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

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

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.