Yehuda Amichai Quotes

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Yehuda Amichai

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Broken
  • U.S.

• GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • World
  • Power

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  

  Carl Olson
  • Relationship
  • Church
  • Catholic

• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Music
  • Art
  • Science

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident.

  

  Mark Wahlberg

• While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish..."

  

  William Goldman
  • Black
  • Wish
  • Care

• I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

  

  Plato
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Knowledge
  • Things
  • Two