Haruki Murakami Quotes

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

Haruki Murakami

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • You
  • Moving
  • Philosophy

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • People
  • Experience
  • True

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Language
  • Communication

• Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Moving

• What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • People
  • Moving
  • Drunk

• This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Time
  • Future
  • Control

• Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

  

  Antonio Perez
  • Space
  • Moving

• Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.

  

  Peter Bondra
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Memories

• I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

  

  Brad Bird
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Moving

• I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Work
  • Important
  • Small

• I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

  

  Chico Hamilton
  • People
  • Simple
  • Moving

• When I was moving to New York in 1994, I saw an ad in the paper that said, 'Do You Measure Up To Be A Muppet?' I answered the ad and soon after met John Henson, who brought me in to understudy him for a real version of the computer generated Coca-Cola Polar Bear.

  

  Matt Vogel
  • Up
  • Real
  • Moving

• If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Job
  • Moving

• What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Future
  • Earth

• The Light Queen’s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again

  

  Kiersten White
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Grace

• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Moving
  • Language
  • Emotions