Haruki Murakami Quotes

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • God
  • Idea
  • Compassion

• If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • War
  • Rules

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Picture
  • Process

• In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Business
  • Should
  • Looks

• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Together
  • Artist
  • Creative

• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Film
  • Choice

• The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

  

  Harry Crews
  • Job
  • Writers

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Talent
  • Instinct
  • Gut