Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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