Aharon Appelfeld Quotes

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Aharon Appelfeld

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• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Ought

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Think
  • Find
  • Dinosaur

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• All the sounds of the earth are like music.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Like

• I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Money
  • Song

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • History
  • Pretty

• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Cold
  • Emotions

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Like
  • Write
  • Skills

• With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • True
  • Strong

• My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • View
  • Serve
  • Competitive

• I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• ...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Party
  • Broken
  • Republican

• We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Football

• I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • World
  • Money
  • Responsibility

• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Humility
  • Refuse
  • Transforming

• The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

  

  Aharon Appelfeld