1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

It was profitable before, but with the additional growth, the bottom-line percentage has increased.

I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Sometimes the French houses have a yeastier flavor than the domestics. You either like it or you don't like it.

We have a lot of unselfish people on this team. Our goal is to spread it out. A lot of people don't understand that. When you have eight, nine players that can do that like we can, it's hard to defend us for 32 minutes.

It didn't surprise me because of how hard he works. It's outstanding, obviously only one person can get that spot, and he did it,

We're concerned some trustees are not working well with the administration.

It was probably the toughest thing I've had to do - ever.