Etgar Keret Quotes
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Quotes to Explore
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
