Haruki Murakami Quotes

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Free
  • Army
  • Slave

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Years
  • Acting
  • Fame

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Country
  • Guy

• 美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。

  

  Mao Zedong

• Ich überhaupt vielseitigkeit nicht recht mag, oder eigentlich nicht recht daran glaube. Was eigenthümlich, und schön, und groß sein soll, das muß einseitig sein.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Money
  • Truth

• I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Hope

• The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Proud

• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Revolution

• O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die and death not ends it

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.

  

  David Dobkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• And if you come and see me,you will upset the order.You cannot come and see me,for I set myself apart.But when you come and see me,in California,you cross the border of my heart.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Heart
  • California

• I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But despite all of the dangers and difficult judgements that lie ahead, burying our head in the sand is not an option. We must face up to this crisis and do all that we can to resolve it.

  

  Jo Cox
  • Up
  • Option

• We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Die
  • Destruction
  • Mechanism