Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

Haruki Murakami

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• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Why
  • Faith

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Political
  • Change

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

• 'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Game

• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sea
  • Soldier

• I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Real
  • Imagination

• The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • World
  • God
  • Purpose

• «Long live the wine!»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Live
  • Wine

• Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• Children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant, are even more prone to such behavior.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Children

• Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Kitchen

• We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe
  • Logic
  • Homeless

• I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Home
  • Road

• When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

  

  Marc Webb

• Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time
  • Why
  • Sides

• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Eyes
  • Ugly
  • Really

• God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

  

  Brad Brown
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Gave

• The sun shines. Sometimes it burns too hot, sometimes it bothers the eyes, but it is a reality of life, and so we live beneath its glare and seek shade and shelter as needed.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Reality
  • Eyes
  • Shelter

• If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Eyes
  • Judgment
  • Happening