Elwyn Brooks White Quotes 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. Acceptance Age Atom Man New Power Speed Terror Violence
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
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Elwyn Brooks White
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. Elwyn Brooks White
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. 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
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. Elwyn Brooks White
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. Elwyn Brooks White
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens. Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab
We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us. Zac Brown