Elwyn Brooks White Quotes Elwyn Brooks White English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Across Education English Judgment Luck Mere More Sheer Sometimes Street Taste Usage
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. Elwyn Brooks White
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. Elwyn Brooks White
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. Elwyn Brooks White
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. Elwyn Brooks White
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. Elwyn Brooks White
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. Elwyn Brooks White
There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap. G-Dragon
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with. Zac Brown
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise. K'naan