Haruki Murakami Quotes

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Haruki Murakami

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• Book
• Reading
• Enjoying

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• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Training
  • Exercise
  • Healthy

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Value
  • Performance

• Art is more engaging that propaganda.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Art
  • More
  • Propaganda

• We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Support
  • Training
  • Security

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Fun
  • Successful
  • Have Fun

• I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Good
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• You don't even have to be able to talk. Just sing and get famous. 'Cause James Brown's been singin' 30 years. I don't know what the fuck James is talkin' about!

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Famous

• Bloodshed kept pace with iron production: in essence, the entire paleotechnic period was ruled, from beginning to end, by the policy of blood and iron. The brutal contempt for life was equalled only by the the almost priestly ritual it developed for inflicting death. Its 'peace' was indeed the peace that passeth understanding: what was it but latent warfare.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Crazy
  • Service

• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Different
  • Song
  • Design

• Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Funny
  • Hilarious

• A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Good
  • Art

• Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

  

  Krysten Ritter

• I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Book
  • Drawing

• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Book
  • Yourself
  • Mirror

• I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading