1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

Malaria actually could be fixed. We don't need a miracle drug. We don't need a miracle vaccine. We have the tools now. We actually could save millions of lives.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

We have 523 people who already live in that area. We'd like to make it a lot easier for them to invite their friends to church without having to drive the 15-16 miles to get here.

It's a bit of a jump into the unknown. We don't really know what these will sell, but digital technology now lets us make more repertoire available.

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitate sex.