E. B. White Quotes

If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it's no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.