Haruki Murakami Quotes

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Haruki Murakami

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• I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Guitar
  • Down
  • Three

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Like
  • Congress
  • Big

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Bike

• I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Process

• I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-

  

  Larry Niven
  • Mind

• …the cold deflation of crapula…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold

• 467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tree
  • Garden

• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Interesting

• It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Writing
  • Bad

• While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • People
  • Children
  • Business

• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Power
  • Mistakes
  • Absorb