Eb White Quotes

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

When it comes to white jeans, fabric is key.

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.

I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

Black, like white, is the best color!

I've always thought that I've been strong in what I believe in. Not that I know what I believe for absolutely everything, but the things that I do believe, it's very black and white, and yes and no.

"The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead" because white bread lacks vitamin E and lecithin.

There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.