Haruki Murakami Quotes

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

Haruki Murakami

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Take
  • Lessons

• If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Think
  • Stop

• Lunch is for wimps.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Lunch
  • Wimps

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Future
  • Decisions
  • Possible

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • World
  • Good
  • Food

• And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Winter

• Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.

  

  Clayton Christensen

• I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Up
  • Different
  • Why

• I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Help
  • Dream

• From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

  

  Jane Lauder
  • Bad

• Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Money
  • Simple

• You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

  

  John Darnielle
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Space

• I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Daughter
  • Breakfast

• It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feeling
  • Touching
  • Void