Haruki Murakami Quotes

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

Haruki Murakami

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• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

  Sampha
  • World
  • School
  • Cool

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• I'm a total foodie.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Total

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God

• Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Power
  • Hope

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live

• The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Truth

• Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul

• Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Stress

• I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Movie

• United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

  

  Matt Busby
  • Football

• A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Memories
  • Creativity
  • Pool

• Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Great

• I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Thinking
  • Musician
  • Filmmaker

• I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Money

• After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

  

  Obafemi Awolowo
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Lies

• One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Remember
  • Rain
  • Memory

• I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Tired
  • Rain
  • Monkey