Haruki Murakami Quotes

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

Haruki Murakami

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Better

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • Terrorism

• I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Day

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Kitchen

• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Science
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Daughter

• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Powerful

• Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.

  

  Billy Beane
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

  

  David Amram
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Kingdoms
  • Represented
  • Beasts

• I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Respect
  • Atheist

• 'It has always seemed strange to me,' said Doc. 'The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Men
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Understanding
  • Create
  • Awareness

• Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Understanding
  • Misunderstandings
  • Sum Total