Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Haruki Murakami

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• Lungs

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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

• 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

• 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

• By the end of next year, we really shall be on our way to that so-called economic miracle we need.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Miracle

• We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Danger
  • Stern

• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • May
  • Truth
  • Universe

• It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

  

  Kou Shibasaki
  • Simple
  • Amazing
  • Flower

• When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

  

  Jack Black
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Want

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Flower
  • Smell
  • Lungs