Haruki Murakami Quotes

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

Haruki Murakami

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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.

  

  OMI
  • Time
  • She
  • Support

• We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Friends
  • New

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Time
  • Different
  • Space

• I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Real
  • Job
  • Serious

• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.

  

  Pia Toscano
  • Different
  • Live
  • Together

• Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Time
  • Patient
  • Killing