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
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
The previous worst hurricane season was in 2004. We raised $135 million then. With Hurricane Katrina, thanks to the incredible support of the American public, we raised $2.116 billion, and we have spent 90 percent of that. Who was ready for 600,000 people who had no place to go?
When her support system broke down here in Michigan, ... she was faced with some tough decisions.
We couldn't have done without the support of LTCC and Barton and I'd really like to be able to offer it again up there in the spring.
We have the opportunity here to support important causes and cancer touches so many people in the community.
Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.
The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material.
Hopefully with student support we'll be able to grow it every year.
It's a wonderful thing if they want to volunteer extra things. But to ask in a manner that indicates you will not be in support of a project if they don't do what you ask of them is extortion.
Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.
For 30 years scientists have suspected that gene regulation has played a central role in human evolution. In addition to lending support to the idea that changes in gene regulation are a key part of our evolutionary history, these new results help to define exactly which regulatory factors may be important, at least in certain tissues. This helps open the door to a functional dissection of the role of gene regulation during the evolution of modern humans.
I am pleased that we put forth that effort for catastrophic events, ... But you look back at other events that have taken place that have called for some kind of fundraising or support from students and staff. Our staff and students have always stood tall.
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.