Haruki Murakami Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
-
I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
-
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
-
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
-
It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
-
There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
-
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-
I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
-
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
-
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
-
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
-
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
-
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
-
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
-
Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
-
I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
-
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
-
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
-
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
-
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
-
Literally, these [heels] slow you down.
-
I like music, indie stuff, but I don’t like liking music that other people like.
-
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
