Haruki Murakami Quotes

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

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• One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Happiness
  • Self
  • Open

• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Understanding

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Leftwing

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Great
  • Why
  • Change

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

  

  Saadi
  • World
  • Old
  • Birds

• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Country
  • Love
  • Border

• You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Walk
  • Canvas

• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Important
  • Success
  • Being

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Smile
  • Fake
  • Nasty

• I like performing in front of big crowds.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Like
  • Big
  • Performing

• I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after – the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.

  

  Arthur Danto
  • Love
  • Story
  • Happily

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Stage
  • Dramatic
  • Screens

• When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Story
  • Write
  • Plan