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Something Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
- Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,…
- A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all…
- A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want…
- Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
- A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
- What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of…
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city…
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
- 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…
- If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle