Haruki Murakami Quotes

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

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• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• You can observe a lot by watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Watching

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Career

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • First
  • Pink
  • Jacket

• The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Issues
  • Vote
  • Only

• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Water

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• We can conceive of various kinds of democracy. But my intention is not to treat of every kind, but of that only, 'wherein all, without exception, who owe allegiance to the laws of the country only, and are further independent and of respectable life, have the right of voting in the supreme council and of filling the offices of the dominion.'

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Country
  • Democracy

• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  

  Pat Robertson

• If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Future

• Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• I'm an ambassador 24 hours a day.

  

  James Costos

• If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Long

• So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Book
  • Law
  • Prayer

• Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Language
  • Complicated