Haruki Murakami Quotes
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.Haruki Murakami
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
Natalie Dormer -
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
Karan Mahajan -
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
Edith Widder
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
Patricia Heaton -
I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
Olivia De Havilland -
I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
Daisy Ridley -
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Gary Bauer -
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.
Jack McDevitt
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When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.
Jenna Blum -
All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.
Andrea Barrett -
If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
Dinesh D'Souza -
I was at Target the day after my kinda debut on 'True Blood,' and I got recognized right away. I was very surprised. It caught me off-guard.
Lindsay Pulsipher -
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
Carol P. Christ -
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
Lyall Watson
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin -
I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.
Ashley Scott -
I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.
Miranda Lambert -
Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
Lyle Lovett -
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
Haruki Murakami