Eb White Quotes

The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.