Etgar Keret Quotes
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.Etgar Keret
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes -
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
Ian Mcewan -
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
Walt Mossberg -
If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
Weegee -
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
W. G. Grace -
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
Anne Carson
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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
Kevin Keegan -
I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.
Chris Owen -
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R.K. Narayan -
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
C. N. Annadurai -
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
C.P. Snow
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Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D. H. Lawrence -
In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo -
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway -
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
William James -
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler -
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.
Ridley Pearson -
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
Garth Brooks -
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
Walter Kohn -
The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.
Bill Whittle -
The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!
Adrian Rogers -
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
Etgar Keret