Etgar Keret Quotes
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
Etgar Keret
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
Faith Prince
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
Nancy Pelosi
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis
I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
Tabatha Coffey
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro
If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
Karan Mahajan
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
Magnus Carlsen
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
Maggie Gallagher
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
Maajid Nawaz
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
Jack Levine
I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
Larry Hagman
Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.
Randall Jarrell
My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
Ben Carson
Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?
Lewis Carroll
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?
Patti LuPone
The way God squandered Himself had always hurt her; and annoyed her too. The sky full of wings and only the shepherds awake. That golden voice speaking and only a few fishermen there to hear; and perhaps some of the words He spoke carried away on the wind or lost in the sound of the waves lapping against the side of the boat. A thousand blossoms shimmering over the orchard, each a world of wonder all to itself, and then the whole thing blown away on a southwest gale as though the delicate little worlds were of no value at all. Well, of all the spendthrifts, she would think and then pull herself up. It was not for her to criticize the ways of Almighty God; if He liked to go to all that trouble over the snowflakes, millions and millions of them, their intricate patterns too small to be seen by human eyes, and melting as soon as made, that was His affair and not hers. All she could do about it was to catch in her window, and save from entire waste, as much of the squandered beauty as she could.
Elizabeth Goudge
If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.
Jeremy Podeswa
They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
Etgar Keret
