Eb White Quotes

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

White privilege is the other side of racism.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?