Eb White Quotes

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

White dew- one drop on each thorn

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Sometimes I get a little nervous about wearing white.

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.