E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White quote: "The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler."

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thoug...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredi...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nu...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excus...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discoura...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I like...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen thr...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips t...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, ve...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks abo...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we sha...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having create...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

I'm not against machines, as are some people who feel that the computer is leading us back into the ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a t...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the set...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can w...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamli...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhe...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his u...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he c...
ELWYN BROOKS WHITE

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
ELWYN BROOKS WHITE

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...
E.B. WHITE

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' '...
E.B. WHITE

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. WHITE

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be...
E.B. WHITE

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (o...
E.B. WHITE

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All wr...
E.B. WHITE

The critic leaves at curtain fall
To find, in starting to review it,
He scarcely saw the...
E.B. WHITE

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...
E.B. WHITE

Clubs, fraternities, nations—these are the beloved barriers in the way of a workable world, these ...
E.B. WHITE

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E.B. WHITE

I'm staying right here," grumbled the rat. "I haven't the slightest interest in fairs."
"That's...
E.B. WHITE

Meetings bore me.
E.B. WHITE

The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is em...
E.B. WHITE

I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.
E.B. WHITE

Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mout...
E.B. WHITE

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
E.B. WHITE

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
E.B. WHITE

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
E.B. WHITE

You have been my friend," replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E.B. WHITE

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
E.B. WHITE

And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that h...
E.B. WHITE

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur.
Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have no...
E.B. WHITE

But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in th...
E.B. WHITE

You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what...
E.B. WHITE

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, sc...
E.B. WHITE

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on ...
E.B. WHITE

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
E.B. WHITE

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A sma...
E.B. WHITE

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wa...
E.B. WHITE

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
E.B. WHITE

Don't write about Man; write about a man.
E.B. WHITE

Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?"
"Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian....
E.B. WHITE

Never hurry and never worry!
E.B. WHITE

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
E.B. WHITE

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the ...
E.B. WHITE

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I like...
E.B. WHITE

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
E.B. WHITE

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E.B. WHITE

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

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can...
E.B. WHITE

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. WHITE

I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swall...
E.B. WHITE

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

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E.B. WHITE

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Child...
E.B. WHITE

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.
E.B. WHITE

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E.B. WHITE

In the trees the night wind stirs, bringing the leaves to life, endowing them with speech; the elect...
E.B. WHITE

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can...
WILLIAM STRUNK JR. E.B. WHITE

All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who ...
E.B. LOAN

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS

Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT BROOKS

I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are...
GARTH BROOKS

Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS

It has to be Champ Bailey. His ball skills are outstanding. He can break on the ball. He can re-dire...
AARON BROOKS

Unfortunately, it's our new home, temporarily, ... We're going to have to accept that and be as comf...
AARON BROOKS

I had my house phone always forwarding to my cell phone, anyway, ... I thought: Eliminate the middle...
AARON BROOKS

As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go...
AARON BROOKS

We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live, ... It's weighing heavily on our hearts an...
AARON BROOKS

As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts, ... We know it's going to be difficult, we k...
AARON BROOKS

We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live. It's weighing heavily on our hearts and mi...
AARON BROOKS

The Civil War is a big game. Regardless of the records going into the game, it's definitely going to...
AARON BROOKS

Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Famili...
AARON BROOKS

Ray Lewis, Ed Reed ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â you look at what they accomplished last year a...
AARON BROOKS

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epit...
MEHCAD BROOKS

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city&#...
GERALDINE BROOKS

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before -- comedy...
ALBERT BROOKS

When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 t...
ALBERT BROOKS

I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie ...
ALBERT BROOKS

Fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production,
ALBERT BROOKS

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
ALBERT BROOKS

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
ALBERT BROOKS

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of ...
ALBERT BROOKS

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
ALBERT BROOKS

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a ma...
ALBERT BROOKS

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed...
ALBERT BROOKS

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
GARTH BROOKS

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh...
GARTH BROOKS

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g...
GARTH BROOKS

It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ...
GARTH BROOKS

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
GARTH BROOKS

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
GARTH BROOKS

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
GARTH BROOKS

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl...
GARTH BROOKS

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on o...
GARTH BROOKS

Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
GARTH BROOKS

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
GARTH BROOKS

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS

I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS

Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS

Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS

It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ...
AHMAD BROOKS

It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS

It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS

It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS

I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS

It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it m...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true rev...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.
ALLAN BROOKS

I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ...
ALLAN BROOKS

There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this...
ALLAN BROOKS

They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe...
ALLAN BROOKS

It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen...
ALLAN BROOKS

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran
AVERY BROOKS

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
THOMAS BROOKS

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
GARTH BROOKS

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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