Haruki Murakami Quotes

Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.

Haruki Murakami

• Brains
• Surrounded
• Witches
• Consciouness

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• When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Brains

• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • Where
  • Brains

• I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Female
  • Witches

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Know
  • Party
  • Brains

• My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Play
  • First
  • Witches

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Brains
  • Exploration
  • Horizont

• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

  

  John Holt
  • Child
  • Force
  • Explore

• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Kid
  • Brains
  • Guard

• Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Acting
  • Brains
  • Scholars

• I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Kingdom
  • Priests
  • Surrounded

• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Desert
  • Horror
  • Escape

• I once ate a pile of brains this big.

  

  Rodney Terence "Rod" Argent Argent
  • Brains

• I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Surrounded
  • Splendid

• I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Money
  • Looks
  • Brains

• If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heart
  • Communist
  • Brains

• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

  

  Norman Borlaug
  • History
  • Lessons
  • Ignoring

• Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Love
  • Man
  • Pleasure

• Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Brains
  • Surrounded
  • Witches