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.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

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