E. B. White
E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 July 1899
CountryUnited States of America
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
We are having local expenses due to assisting evacuees that are in our community,
What you see is what you're going to get all the time. Running on the field, throwing the football, joking around, going to the movies. I don't know if he's ever really serious, other than blowing the whistle a couple of times during the season when the tempo isn't right at practice.
What you've got right now is a technology that is jury-rigged from old technology. It was never really designed to provide a high-bandwidth connection and frankly doesn't do a good job of it.
What we have to do is to deny them the ball,
Where else can you do that besides L.A.?
When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,
We get families with kids and retired people, and I'm sure they're all on fixed incomes where they can't afford that extra for gas, so I can understand that.
We got the protection we needed on that play. Jordan made a great throw and Brandon made a better catch.
The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.
We?re not going to push it too far this early in the season.
We don't have much of a working relationship with them. We don't communicate with them.
We didn't really think that 8.75 was too bad but we've come to understand it is not a very good rate, ... I kind of feel like I don't have a very good deal.