Haruki Murakami Quotes
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
Quotes to Explore
-
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
-
From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
-
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
-
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
-
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
-
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
-
I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
-
I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
-
Your man Flavor Flav is living!
-
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
-
I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
-
I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
-
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
-
Freedom is living without chains.
-
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
-
One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
-
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
-
I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
-
I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
-
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
-
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
-
I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
-
I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.
-
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
