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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye -
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson -
I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
Laura Esquivel -
I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
D. B. Weiss -
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
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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 -
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 -
…the cold deflation of crapula…
Anthony Burgess -
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 -
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 -
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
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I have dogs, and I hike.
Joanna Going -
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Denis Diderot -
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin Bacon -
All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
Douglas Wood -
I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.
Dennis Crowley -
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
James Tobin
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Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
Luis Figo -
None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
Gary Bettman -
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer -
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
Emanuel Ax -
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
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