E. B. White Quotes

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.

You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.