Haruki Murakami Quotes

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Haruki Murakami

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• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
  • Industry
  • Idols
  • Ricky

• Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Spring

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Future

• The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Music
  • Always
  • Crowd

• I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Passion
  • Budget

• I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Character
  • Funny

• You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Why
  • Garden

• Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Blue

• We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People

• Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)

  

  Aristophanes
  • City
  • Clouds

• Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Home
  • Truth

• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Time
  • Night
  • Dog

• I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Relationship
  • Eyes

• One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

  

  James Wolcott
  • World
  • True
  • Eyes

• I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Hurt

• I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Things

• Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Train