Haruki Murakami Quotes

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

Haruki Murakami

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• The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Life
  • High
  • Excellence

• I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Woman
  • Win
  • First

• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Easy
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Taken

• The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Comedy

• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  

  Little Richard
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Like

• Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Body
  • Unique

• Julian Mack has had two straight games playing much more actively.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Games
  • Active
  • Julian Mack

• I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • May
  • Moving
  • Knows

• The ultrasound that has application not only in space for a long mission or for a mission to the Moon or Mars, but also in remote areas on the Earth. Not even just - I'm not even talking about expeditions like to the Antarctic, but just a remote area, a small town somewhere. The local doctor is not going to know everything, and so if that person can link in with a diagnostic ultrasound to the hospital in New York City through the internet, then they can do a very quick diagnosis of something that's wrong with someone that's in this remote area.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Small

• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Smart
  • Dumb

• You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Networking is extremely masculine. It's a vulnerable thing to admit to, but even I experience feeling super insecure around certain masculine meetings. So, we put women in control. Women will make the first move on Bumble Bizz as well.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Elements
  • Latin Music

• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

  

  Plato
  • Mistake
  • Disease
  • Treatment

• Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Opinion
  • Mark
  • Egotism

• Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Lived
  • Sophistry

• Love can be founded upon Nature only.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Nature

• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Imagination
  • Study
  • Achievements

• Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

  

  Homer
  • Scene
  • Call Me

• Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Restraint

• There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Ambition
  • Opportunities
  • Punk

• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Scene
  • Real World
  • Adapted