Showing posts with label E. B. White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E. B. White. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Quotes

"There is nothing more likely to
start disagreement among people
or countries than an agreement."
- E. B. White

"The shortest way to do many things
is to do only one thing at once."
- Samuel Smiles


Advertising may be described as the science of arresting
human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

I'm not normally a religious man, but if
you're up there, save me, Superman!
- Homer Simpson

"The breaking of a wave cannot
explain the whole sea."
- Vladimir Nabokov


Whatever happens, whatever
comes, know that I love you.
- Beauty and the Beast

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotes

"Be obscure clearly."
- E. B. White

"A celebrity is one who is known to many
persons he is glad he doesn't know."
- H. L. Mencken

"She runs the gamut of
emotions from A to B."
- Dorothy Parker

"The only difference between the Democrats
and the Republicans is that the Democrats
allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
- Oscar Levant

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just
incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
- Jerry Garcia

"Save a little money each month and at
the end of the year you'll be surprised
at how little you have."
- Ernest Haskins

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotaria

"Genius is more often found in a
cracked pot than in a whole one."
- E. B. White


"After all is said and done,
more is said than done."
- Aesop

"The object in life is not to be on the side of
the majority, but to be insane in such a useful
way that they can't commit you."
- Mark Edwards


"A healthy male adult bore consumes each
year one and a half times his own weight
in other people's patience."
- John Updike


"You are remembered for the rules you break."
- Douglas MacArthur


"We need a president who's fluent
in at least one language."
- Buck Henry

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is
a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what
I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss

"Earth is a flower and
it's pollinating."
- Neil Young

"People are, if anything, more touchy
about being thought silly than they
are about being thought unjust."
- E. B. White

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen
off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on
every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
- Tom Stoppard

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the
critics. The ones who want to be writers read
the reviews, the ones who want to write don't
have the time to read reviews."
- William Faulkner

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted
adult gets up at seven-thirty in the
morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr

Friday, November 21, 2008

Quotes

"Practice does not make perfect. Only
perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi

"One can never consent to creep when
one feels an impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller

"The future, according to some scientists, will be
exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
- John Sladek

"It is well to remember that the entire universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
- John Andrew Holmes

"The place where optimism most
flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
- Havelock Ellis

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can,
but the thing dies in the process and
the innards are discouraging to any but
the pure scientific mind."
- E. B. White