Haruki Murakami Quotes

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

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• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • May
  • Together

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Matter

• Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Team
  • Senior

• To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • History

• Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Question
  • Moments

• I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

  

  Jodi Rell
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Action

• It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler

• In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

  

  Lisa Lutz

• It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

  

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
  • Writing
  • Boundaries
  • Readers

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Time
  • True
  • Dream

• I have said in the past that I dream of playing in Spain, but Dortmund has become my second home. I love this club, its fans, and this city.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Past

• People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

  

  Alan Bates
  • People

• I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Home
  • Cats
  • Backyards