Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami

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• I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Art
  • Character
  • Fashion

• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Always
  • Top
  • Courteous

• I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Art
  • Internet

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Military

• My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• Science is not gadgetry.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science

• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Mystery

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Night
  • Light
  • Morning

• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Lies
  • Impulse
  • Fuzzy

• I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Light

• I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Different

• I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Guy

• I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dark
  • Pitch
  • Blackness