1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

The public has the right to know why the police took the action they did, and that information is available to the public only if search warrant affidavits and arrest warrant affidavits are public.

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

It wasn't due to the request by the county commissioners or because of some of the dirty looks, ... It was the compassionate appeal by Mr. (William) O'Pharrow and Mr. (Anthony) Northern and (the Rev. David Williams) that changed my mind.

I stuck it out as long as I could. I just came to a point where it took me four seconds to drop back on a five-step drop. By that time, I'm sacked.

We need citizens who may need assistance in evacuations to reach out to friends, family and neighbors, ... There will not be enough government vehicles to go and evacuate everybody in every area.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

Thank you ... I'm so grateful you're allowing me to be here. Thank you for sparing my life.