Elwyn Brooks White Quotes 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. Day Desire Enjoy Hard Life Morning Morning Torn Plan World
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Elwyn Brooks White
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. Elwyn Brooks White
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. 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
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. Elwyn Brooks White
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others. B. B King