Etgar Keret Quotes

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Etgar Keret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingTraditionSpeechLostWrite

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

John Lydon

MusicWillMy OwnPossibleOwnLeft

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Anna Netrebko

WorkProblemsHighLowNotesGoing

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

John Ruskin

IgnoranceKnowProfoundAnything

The world is becoming more global, and our music is reflecting that.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

MusicWorldMoreBecomingGlobal

Art is a sense of magic.

Stan Brakhage

ArtMagicSense

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Steven Berkoff

LifeNatureBritishBluntPragmatic

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

Rush Limbaugh

HealthGovernmentControlBetter

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

Mitchell Zuckoff

MoneyWeekYearNewOldPay

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

FamilyEducationTexasThinkPlay

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

Little Simz

LifeMotherTimeBrotherEverything

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.

Derek Theler

SchoolMedicineColoradoNutrition

I don't think capitalism can survive.

Douglas Tompkins

SurviveCapitalismThink

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Etgar Keret