Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Haruki Murakami

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Today

• Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Guy
  • Food

• I win everyday I'm out there.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Everyday

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

  

  Aaron David Gordon

• Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God
  • May
  • Soul

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• 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

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Once Upon A Time