Haruki Murakami Quotes

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Haruki Murakami

• Once Upon A Time

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• Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Water
  • Spring

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  

  Barber Conable
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Joy
  • Hands
  • Got

• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Like

• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Work
  • Job
  • Week

• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  

  Warren Farrell

• I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

  

  Adrian Cronauer

• I didn't work out with Kobe. I don't know where that came from. I wish I could have.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work
  • Wish

• The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.

  

  Bernice King
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

  

  Arthur Keith

• I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

  

  Christopher Knight
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

• Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Church

• When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Good
  • Character
  • Style

• When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • People
  • Work
  • Waiting

• It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country
  • Party
  • Determination

• I try not to invest time in what other people think of me.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • People
  • Time

• A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  

  Aaron David Gordon

• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • World
  • Devil

• Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Work
  • Family
  • Happy

• Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Once Upon A Time