Haruki Murakami Quotes

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Yourself
  • Labor
  • Masses

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • World
  • Voice

• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • Art
  • Dreams

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

  

  Donald Sumpter
  • Character
  • Hope

• I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Calm
  • Destroyed
  • Cemetery

• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • Wonder
  • Sex
  • Movies

• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Books
  • Intellectual
  • Refuges