Haruki Murakami Quotes

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

Haruki Murakami

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• In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Past
  • Action

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Want
  • Look
  • Apple

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Lost
  • Face
  • Wrestling

• I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Morning
  • Found
  • Mud

• It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Real
  • Day

• Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Interesting
  • Technology
  • Challenges

• I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Long
  • Way
  • Attention

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Learning

• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Men
  • Blow
  • Reputation

• If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • High
  • Failure

• The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Fear

• When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Work
  • Great
  • Enough

• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Book
  • Strange

• What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Care
  • Regard

• Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

  

  George Washington
  • Spring
  • Labor
  • Affair

• Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Animals
  • Names
  • Possess