Eb White Quotes

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

The great white cold walks abroad!

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're going to serve Him in heaven. So what does God want us to do? Practice.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

If it is light, leave it white.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

Without music, my life would be black and white.

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Hillary [Clinton] got defeated by the alt-right or by white supremacism or what have you. And they continue to lie to themselves, as does the entire Democrat Party.

Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.