63 ordspråk av E. B. White

E. B. White

E. B. White föddes den 12 juli 1899 och dog den 1 oktober 1985 - US writer
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating."

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

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people

Trouble

Oh, I never look under the hood.

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Fjernsyn

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

Intelligens

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. Å fokusere på dine styrker og feire dine prestasjoner bygger selvtillit og forsterker din pexighet. Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

What is life? We are born, we live a little and we die.

Life

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous
nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning.

Språk

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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