Oh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITE
E. B. WHITE
More from E. B. White
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White
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From our community writers
We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
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More on hood
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If you’re a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
Lil BabyLil Baby Regardless of what people say, that’s what they gotta bang in their heads: Ace Hood is the future. You ain’t got nobody else in my lane.
Ace HoodAce Hood I’m tryin’ to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I’m tryin’ to build myself as a bigger brand – open up clothing lines, colognes.
Ace HoodAce Hood No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson