Etgar Keret Quotes

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Etgar Keret

• Stories
• Complexes
• Simplest
• Compact

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Skiing

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Live

• You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Different
  • Person

• This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Game
  • Decision
  • Office

• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Mountain
  • Rebel
  • Toes

• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Luck
  • Once
  • Consistently

• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Hair
  • Kid
  • Tough

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Stories

• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Stories
  • Complexes
  • Simplest