Haruki Murakami Quotes

Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!

Haruki Murakami

• Girl
• English
• Fell in Love
• Marx

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Career

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Improve
  • Still
  • Lot

• When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Trust
  • Go For It

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Done
  • Why
  • Know

• When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Trust

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Game

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
  • Aggressive

• When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • End
  • Media

• I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Hurt
  • Years
  • Lying

• Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girl
  • English
  • Fell in Love