Etgar Keret Quotes

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Etgar Keret

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• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Science
  • Star
  • Fiction

• Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Respond

• We're going to go with two kickers until John is healthy, and then we'll make a decision, ... We are thin at some other positions, but we don't have a choice at this point.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Decision
  • Choice
  • Healthy

• After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.

  

  Peter Cetera Chicago
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fall

• Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fly

• People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Mother
  • Nature

• When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Depend

• He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Help

• The Bookshop has a thousand books,

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Book
  • Color
  • Doors

• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Definitions

• We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Band

• The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Music
  • Character
  • Play

• The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Song

• For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Kissing