Haruki Murakami Quotes

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Haruki Murakami

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• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Husband

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Humanity
  • Actions
  • Allow

• Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Player
  • Works

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movies
  • Lifetime
  • Aim

• Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Presence

• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • History
  • Man

• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding. Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightest feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Eyes
  • Wedding
  • Whiskey

• It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  

  Don DeLillo

• You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Happy

• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Fruit
  • Diet
  • Fish

• Audiences have taken a liking for supernatural and fantasy shows. The genre is doing well on the small screen, and I wanted to get into that mould. I have never played a naagin, and such roles have always intrigued me.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Small
  • Taken
  • Supernatural

• That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Evolution