Haruki Murakami Quotes

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Anger

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • More
  • Box
  • Ballot

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Say
  • Everyone
  • Consensus

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Amazing
  • Being
  • Special

• My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • World
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Doubt
  • Building

• We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Happy
  • Be Happy
  • Contented

• I don't need to publish to make a living.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Need
  • Living
  • Publish

• Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Independent
  • Talent

• It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Looking

• We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

  

  Jack Adams
  • American
  • Air
  • Japanese

• I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • You
  • Win

• I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • First
  • Old
  • Collecting

• I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Women
  • Want
  • Care

• You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Different
  • Know
  • Fire

• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • May
  • Future

• When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jesus
  • Relationships
  • Kingdom Of God

• In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Place
  • Drifted