Haruki Murakami Quotes

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

Haruki Murakami

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Myself
  • Excited
  • Far

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Want
  • Sun
  • Shine

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• Sit down, Willy.

  

  Arthur Miller

• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Improvement

• We turn away astrophysicists in order to make room for illiterate Afghan peasants who will drop out of high school to man coffee carts until deciding to engage in jihad against us.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • School
  • High
  • Coffee

• It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Life
  • Daily

• It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Important
  • Exercise
  • Workout

• I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Together
  • Strong

• Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

  

  Jeff Bingaman
  • American
  • Today
  • Energy

• I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • People
  • Future
  • Diversity

• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Purpose
  • Winning
  • Cutting

• Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Grammar

• I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Flower
  • Smell
  • Lungs