Eb White Quotes

I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan, that's about it. I think that I've been lucky enough to represent some great companies, and I think maybe that's what it is.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon.

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

Remember the White Knight.

I like more streetwear and baggier stuff. I like what Off-White is doing, I like what Fear of God is doing. There's a brand called FourTwoFour out of L.A. that's doing a lot of good stuff too.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.

And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed

O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.