Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

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• I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Light
  • Learn
  • Fire

• I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Think
  • My Life

• Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

  

  Alcuin
  • God
  • Thinks
  • Directs

• We each have the kind of children we deserve.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Children

• I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Funny

• Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Music
  • Heart

• These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

  

  Epictetus
  • Style
  • Connection
  • Property

• Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Surprise
  • Upset
  • Sexiness

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Age
  • Easy
  • First

• If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Ordinary
  • Upset