Haruki Murakami Quotes

Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Haruki Murakami

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• My default is e-40 because there's no one else in the world who raps like him. I've always loved e-40.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Always
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Live
  • Black
  • Alone

• If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Persons

• Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Youth
  • Him

• The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • World
  • Hope
  • Destiny

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Write
  • Data

• Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Character
  • War

• Alas! the great world goes its way,And takes its truth from each new day;They do not quit, nor can retain,Far less consider it again.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Believe

• I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

  

  Lee Majors
  • Work

• As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Voices
  • Lawyers

• In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Military

• For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Baby

• Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • World
  • Alone