Etgar Keret Quotes

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

Etgar Keret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: August 20, 1967

Topics

LoveBeautifulYouSituationWant

In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

ChangeTruthCultureMoneyPeople

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

Andy Dunn

JobMeStartThinkEndChair

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

John Oldham

GodAloneMyselfConscienceLord

I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it's where I started Papa John's, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.

John Schnatter

HeartPartnershipBornPlaceSpecial

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sting

FailurePeopleGoKnowWriteWhere

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

Doug Harvey

ProudFamousKnowPlaysHarvey

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

Christopher Lloyd

PeopleMeBoyShyOutGet

I had adapted to the blonde. So when they told me I'm going back to do these five episodes of 'Arrow', I was clearly really excited, but when they said I couldn't be blonde, it stung a little.

Cody Rhodes

MeBlondeBackSaidClearlyExcited

Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.

Annalise Basso

MusicPinkMuseSpeakingLikeBands

When I graduated from college in 1996 and the Internet was taking off, I remember this feeling that there was an open range where anything could be built.

Anne Wojcicki

CollegeInternetRememberFeeling

When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

Winnie Byanyima

WomenGivingEmpowermentTalkMore

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

MotherMeBecomeLuckyPoetWho

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