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
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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.
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I'm sure this is just the starting point. We want to work from the ground up and get people thinking about crime prevention.
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She inspired me to start running and getting back into shape. She knew that it was hard for me to get to the gym, so she gave me advice and help.
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The wind didn't start in the late innings. It's been blowing all day and we've known it. We just didn't make plays in it.
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One disadvantage we have is we really don't know what is going to happen with traffic and parking until people start using the facility.
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People are starting to see the value of a natural, free flowing water body as a part of our communities.
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It was a tough game all the way through but from the start we knew it was going to be tough,
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It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book about a serious subject but told with such a respectful, light touch. It's one of those books you sit down and read start to finish because you can't put it down. And after you finish, you say 'My aunt would like this, and so would my great-grandmother and my sister.' And so people will buy one, and then come back and buy 10.
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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.
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It's all starting to sink in, but until you kick it off, you just never know for sure (how things will go). There is a lot of restless anticipation right now. But I do think we have enough veterans on this team that they will be a stabilizing force for the young guys.
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It really is a very good barometer, we think, of how active employers are.
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As a New York-based sports editor put it to me,
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That's been one of the knocks on me, ... that people think I'm not strong. So that's one of the things I want to work on in my last year.
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They started cracking jokes, and I said: 'Ain't nothing funny when I have to work the next day.'