Eb White Quotes

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.

White Americans have a short memory.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

If you're from Africa, why are you white?

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

I believe Hillary [Clinton] should be the president. I believe having her and her husband in the White House is what the country needs .

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.

The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

The white devil's time is up.

I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

The color white is the absence of memory.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.