Etgar Keret Quotes

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Exciting
  • Indian
  • Entrepreneurship

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Game
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Artists
  • Arts

• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• Oderint dum metuant.

  

  Lucius Accius

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Novel

• In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Technology

• I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

  

  Joe Greene
  • School
  • High
  • Desire

• I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Psychology

• The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

  

  Paul Weyrich
  • People
  • Time
  • Control

• Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow

• Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Mean
  • Air
  • Feelings