Haruki Murakami Quotes

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

Haruki Murakami

• Emotions
• Optimistic
• Expectation
• Confusion

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Food
  • Enough
  • Moment

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Now
  • Inspire

• MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Accept
  • Member

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Money
  • Sympathy

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Success
  • Fool
  • Succeed

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • High

• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • People
  • World
  • Cancer

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I worked as a liaison with some high-level government officials.

  

  Jon Keyser
  • High

• Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Liberty
  • Artistic
  • Chosen

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic
  • Expectation