Eb White Quotes

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.