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Quote by E B White

Topics: Television Quotes

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less...

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less...

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

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

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

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

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

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

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

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my...

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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

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

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense...

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense...

Be obscure clearly.

Be obscure clearly.

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

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