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
It was very daunting, seeing him for the first time and knowing this is the man that killed my daughter. I need to hear his explanation as to why. I want to know the details and I want to know why he killed my daughter.
The whole year we've been fighting against the best and this is another game that shows we've got a lot of heart. Jihad made a big shot; he's got a lot of heart and he's a good player. He made a big shot. We've just got to make a few more plays at the end of the game.
The way I feel about it is if it happened to me, I wish America opened their heart to me.
I woke in my house, which borders the campus, and I walked outside where all the freshmen are moving into their dorms. About five minutes later, I hear that Tulane is closing down, so they let the freshmen move their stuff in the dorms and then evacuated the campus immediately.
But the cath lab isn't waiting for you to have a heart attack. We have to react.
Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.
To this day it still bothers me because I can hear it in my nose. I can hear a little bit of the nasally thing. I remember that time was very difficult for me. It didn't affect the fate of the record, but I can still hear it.
I've heard Campo has done good things with the Sharks and I definitely want to talk to him.
It was 1980-'81, ... and I was booking bands for the George Street Grocery. I heard him play once, and he was great. I always tried to hook Sam up with a band.
It really is a great drug for heart disease.
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.