Haruki Murakami Quotes

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

Haruki Murakami

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• I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Disney
  • Favorite

• I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Think

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• 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

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Only

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match

  

  Eminem
  • Job
  • Black
  • Boxing

• Elinor was still staring at this missive, her plucked brows drawn together in distaste, when the door opened. The maid announced, 'Mr Welman,' and Roddy came in.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Together
  • Door

• He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Irish

• I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • World
  • Education
  • Forever

• The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

  

  Chuck D
  • Music
  • Lawyer

• American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Military

• I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

  

  Alton Brown
  • People
  • Dirty

• I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you're on 'CBS This Morning' or whether or not you make the local news station.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Success
  • Morning

• Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions in the premium segments of their markets. We keep our shops small, with truly talented professionals who are choosing Engel & Volkers because of the extensive connections and support we provide them.

  

  Anthony Hitt
  • Needs
  • Markets
  • Advisors

• I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

  

  Pitbull
  • Time
  • Light

• You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Fire

• We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

  

  Emil Cioran

• Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Light
  • Bathe
  • Moons