Haruki Murakami Quotes

I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

Haruki Murakami

• Product
• Mountains
• Winds
• Temperature
• Feel Right

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• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Curiosity

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Science
  • Past
  • Research

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• There's no one who has been living for centuries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Living
  • Been
  • Centuries

• My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

  

  Becky G
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Makeup

• I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Day
  • Lunch
  • Chicken

• The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Baby

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Hand

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Protect
  • Exploited

• The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

  

  Maaza Mengiste
  • Nature
  • Die
  • Love Is

• Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

  

  Ueda Akinari
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Church
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Kind

• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Career
  • Human being
  • Possession

• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Exploring

• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Imagination
  • Magic
  • Difficult

• I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Product
  • Mountains
  • Winds