Etgar Keret Quotes

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

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• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Day

• I'll run your brain around the block to jog your fucking memory.

  

  Eminem
  • Brain

• When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Bad
  • Famous

• Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Life

• I live a normal lifestyle, but I try to make healthy decisions while doing it.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Live

• When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • Boxing

• If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Cooking

• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

  

  Don Drysdale

• Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.

  

  Daniel Ortega
  • Great
  • Power

• Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

  

  Alastair Campbell

• I try not to get too self-absorbed.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Silent
  • Relief
  • Goodbyes

• When they told Missis Cohen that she'd lost her man, She said 'Must you interrupt me when I'm playing 'Pan'?' Then she said to her partner, Missus R. J. Rosen, 'Cohen was a lovely husband, but he's no good frozen.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Lost
  • Husband
  • Partner

• Before Ben-Yehuda... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

  

  Cecil Roth
  • Speak
  • Jew
  • Hebrew

• Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Faith
  • Action

• I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Radio
  • Tape

• Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Frozen
  • Hebrew
  • Peas