Etgar Keret Quotes

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

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• Southern women always know how to make you feel welcome, loved and admired, even when we're talkin' smack!

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Women

• It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Language
  • Greek
  • Translations

• I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Honest

• Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)

  

  Ally Carter
  • English
  • Boys
  • Translators

• Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Dangerous
  • Ninja
  • Medicine Cabinet

• Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Freak
  • Rabbits
  • Ninja

• There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Same

• I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'

  

  Taylor Cole
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Good
  • Business
  • Game

• I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Friend

• Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

  

  Elaine Davis
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Heart
  • Worship
  • Response

• When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Party
  • Cinema
  • Streets

• When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.

  

  Paul Prudhomme
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Meal

• We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Understanding

• Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Sick
  • Name

• Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Ninja
  • Translators