E. B. White Eat Quotations

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Rochdale,

In ten years I've watched my son go from being extremely uncertain about where he was headed, to really being a great husband, a great dad, a determined athlete and a good business guy,

Intellectually, we know for certain that we are on this planet for a very brief period, yet we tend to live as if we were going to live forever, as if there were no end to our life or to the lives of our friends and family. This not-so-subtle denial of death persists throughout our lives, unless we are lucky enough to get a dramatic, usually painful and invariably life-changing wake-up call. The moments of our lives are ephemeral gifts, and we can not afford to miss even one of them. Happily, you don't have to wait for a painful wake-up call. You can notice the miracle of your life right now. Awareness is a choice.

In some ways, it's not the professional music making you hear up at Ithaca College and Cornell. On the other hand, this is really coming from the hearts of people who live this music every week. From that standpoint, it's just amazing. There are lot of great musicians at Calvary Baptist and they sing from their hearts and souls, and the same at St. Paul's.

One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I thought it sounded like a great idea.

Having two more options is going to be great for all of us. My son is especially optimistic about more restaurant and entertainment options.

Sure a car and computer are great gifts, but they also are necessities.

D-Y has great skill-position people, which means our defense is going to have to come up big for the second week in a row.

We're trying to create a dynasty, we're trying to build something. Little by little I think it's happening.

It may not be the Alps but the height of the mountains and the snow generate conditions that are equivalent. The weather can deteriorate from a nice day to an awful one in 20 minutes. On the highest mountains, this can occur almost instantaneously.

It really is a great drug for heart disease.

Homosexuality is a decision, it's not a race. People from all ethnic backgrounds live in this lifestyle. But people from all different ethnic backgrounds also are liars and cheaters and malicious and back-stabbing.

He was our most consistent pitcher. He did a good job of getting the fastball over with the changeup. He's a great athlete who fields well and does a good job of holding runners on. He never seems to get rattled.

The beauty of Janice?s gift was that there were no restrictions. But we, in a sense, created a restriction because we wanted to honor her for this quite amazing gift. But not just buying a new set of orchestra chairs but by creating an event that would honor her gift and put the Missouri Symphony Orchestra on the map, above and beyond having a great summer music festival, and see where it goes from here.

The atmosphere's great but I didn't get the practice I would do at home

I think the strongest argument for the government is, if the death penalty is not appropriate for someone who had a hand in an attempt to undermine the entire American system of military, industry, and government, then who is it appropriate for?

You can put the most beautiful ad ever created in the most appropriate magazine ever printed but it will never have the impact of a well-written story. I wish we could slash our advertising budget and put all our money in public relations.

My sister and I would always be playing softball and I appreciate everything I have learned from her. And my brother and I would always be playing each other on the basketball court. I could beat him until he grew too tall for me to guard.

This would interfere with employer-employee relationships, and we are always going to work to preserve the rights that surround that relationship. We are going to tell our lobbying team to work to defeat any bill that has to do with this.

We've got 80 minutes and it could be the best 80 minutes of South Africa's rugby history for a long time. You can't make it any bigger than it is. To win tomorrow you win the Tri-Nations, you win back-to-back Tri-Nations, you go to number one in the world, you beat the All Blacks three times in succession, you can't try to make it any bigger. No South African side has won here (in Dunedin) since 1921. The more you talk about it the more you appreciate just how big this fixture is.

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Working with her before and again now, you can't beat the experience of working with someone who has been number one.

We need more big ideas, stretch ideas, creative ideas than I sense we're thinking about today,

It was great to see him have a great game. Offensively and defensively, he was making things happen. I know he's very capable of doing that. I was glad to be here to see it.

These kids set a great example for our younger kids. They treated everyone really well. They just brought a sense of enjoyment to the season.

This is a great workout to get ready for track season.

I feel good. I feel like I can walk around with my head up and just be proud that I had a great four years here. I feel happy.

It was a mutual thing as to what everybody deep down wanted. A lot of times when you create a bond, you kind of do the little extra things to make things happen, or to make that other person successful.

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.

We got the protection we needed on that play. Jordan made a great throw and Brandon made a better catch.

The theatrical community -- music and dance -- adds a unique touch to New York City. There are more than 400 small off off Broadway theaters on record.

He's definitely auditioning for a head coaching job, maybe not here but he's going to get a head coaching job. He's a great coach, a players' coach and he's going to give it his all. He played the game and played it well.

But I would not leave my federal job. It is not right to create a byelection.

This equipment is newer and greater and does so much more. There's just no comparison in what we can do.

Surgery is still the most common treatment in the U.S. because patients aren't aware that they have choices.

They're good. I think he's a great coach.

In class work, it is easy to learn only what is needed for a grade. When doing research, I try to understand what I am studying completely. Another great thing about it is that I get to work one on one with professors in my field.

The reason that countries are using lousy drugs to treat malaria is that they can't afford better drugs.

I don't believe you should give up this community for this building. If you rezone this thing to M-1, you would be signing the death warrant for this community.

If thousands of demonstrators are coming to Los Angeles and the police say simply that no one can demonstrate, ... that creates the dynamic where problems can occur.

The behavior of the students impressed the administration. They stayed in their seats and kept the aisles clear.

I got here at 2:30. Big mistake. The people at the end of the line have the same chance at getting good seats as I do.

The recruiters, I think, are even more enthusiastic about it because what companies want is people who can add value, people who can contribute. And therefore they value smartness, they value good grades and a good education, but they really like that practical intelligence and that creative ability,

He doesn't have a great chance of making it. Pretty much when he has a good day, we have a good day.

We had to come out pounding the ball, ... Our offensive line did a great job. Every time I got the ball, they had a great surge. They deserve all the credit.

The citizens, for example, were not used to getting their permits this quickly, so they didn't bring their checkbooks with them to pay for the permits. We had to quickly create a stage to freeze the process until it was paid, but because it was an in-house process, we were able to put that in in a matter of minutes.

You turn on the film and the No. 1 player you're going to game-plan around is Brian Calhoun. He's the No. 1 player that we game-plan around (offensively). So, conversely, as a defensive coach, you're going to spend a lot of energy in trying to contain, throttle, and frustrate Calhoun, while forcing other players to beat you. If I'm coaching against us, the first thing I'm going to do is figure out a way to contain Brian because he can change a game, and change it fast.

Everybody can't win all the time. They came out and played a great game. We can't take that away.

(Lamar) drilled us at our house last year and we challenged our players to put out a great effort tonight. We didn't look pretty but we made the play we had to make at the end to win the game.

I was disappointed, because I wanted to be a state champion in my senior year. But there were some excellent wrestlers in that tournament. All were great to just get there. I still was disappointed, though. I came so close to winning it all.

The greatest advantage of the new technology is that information can be shared along the whole supply chain.

You have to let go of the bad memories as well as the good ones. It made me sick, but beating myself up about it isn't going to do me or anybody else in here any good. That's why I have to move on.

I had to get up at 6 a.m. and try and figure out what to eat and what clothes to wear. I felt good the day of the race. My legs felt good and my energy felt good.

We would still buy it at these levels, ... The stock has excellent earnings momentum right now. Great product pipeline. So, this is a stock that we'd still want to be involved in.

For us to do anything close to unanimous is great for us. People who don't often vote together voted tonight to move this system forward.

Look, if you're going to have millions of vehicles going on the highways, am I going to predict no traffic jam in next three days? Obviously not. There will be a bunch of vehicles moving, and all it takes is one stalled or wrecked vehicle to create a backup.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

We expected McAlister to play against us, because he was so effective in the third Test against the Lions. They obviously have a plan. We must just choose the best possible team to beat the All Blacks.

I keep repeating that people are not stupid, and we're not. For every destructive emotion and limiting belief we hang onto, there are payoffs, hidden benefits. Why else would we hold onto them?

I think one of the take-home messages is that variation can be created rapidly with just a few naturally occurring mutations.

She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.

If we can create teachers from our own students from this generation, we will be set for the next generation.

If we beat the All Blacks on Saturday it must come close to the achievement of winning a World Cup.

It absolutely saves a lot of time. It allowed us to get information out quickly. It's a great component in the whole network. People know to be vigilant. There's a feeling that we're aware.

It's a great cost-cutting story right now. You've got very good management, excellent links into the consumer. And they've been there with the electronic banking for a long, long while. So, that's one that we definitely would be accumulating at these prices.

I remembered the gun I had beneath my seat.

It's great to have rich relatives. I wouldn't have been able to afford any of this if it wasn't for him.

It shows the complexity of the day -- the frailties, lack of communication and frustration. This is not a happy film; this is not a pretty film; this film describes in real time the deaths that occurred. It shows footage of the Towers and the Pentagon and weaves Flight 93 through it all.

Being out in Hollywood creates a special scene for him. Everyone knows him.

Fasten your seat belt -- peak hurricane season isn't until mid-September through mid-October, and we've had two hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast already.

Seniors are scared to death with the inordinate amount of information, and they are intimidated by the penalty if they don't make a choice by May 15.

I think Brian learned a valuable lesson last week. He was frustrated and I told him, 'They're going to make us beat them by throwing the football, so you need to take that as a compliment.' That doesn't mean you surrender. You keep playing because it's going to be a game where you earn every one of your yards. Games like this are games of persistence, games of trusting yourself, and knowing it's not going to look pretty all the time, but you have to keep banging away.

The mood is still good in the camp. The game against Italy coming along so soon is great for us because it is a chance to test ourselves again, put in another good performance, and hopefully get a win.

During the four years that it took to resolve this case we never wavered in our unflagging commitment to publicly demonstrate the we offer excellent services to our clients, we treat our chiropractors fairly and we make available to patients quality care at an affordable price. We are glad to see resolution.

We missed a lot of tackles, and to beat a team like that you have to do a better job of tackling.

It's not that there's a certain temperature at which food becomes good or bad. It's just the higher the temperature, the greater the chance of any bacteria that could have gotten into it will grow.

War correspondents . . . see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

Great Falls is one the cleanest cities as far as air pollution is concerned in the U.S..

I'd like it to be the other way sometimes, ... I've got a crazy metabolism. I get (the weight) and it goes right down as soon as I start running. It's hard for me to put on weight. You just try to work at it and eat as much as you can, try to do the things that will get you there.

My younger kids are great. They did whatever they could to make those seniors better. Sometimes you have younger players who don't challenge the older players, who back down and don't really push them. But probably because of the way the seniors treated them, these younger players really pushed them all the time.

In addition to testing for analytical abilities, which current tests do, we also want to test for practical abilities such as common sense, problem solving, ability to work with people and creative abilities, because we know, especially in business, creativity is crucial to new products and service development,