1q84 Best Quotes

#1. Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

Rick Scott

#2. Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather ... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

Grady Little

#3. His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
1Q84, Murakami

Haruki Murakami

#4. I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

Sarah Kay

#5. I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Massimo Vignelli

#7. If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now. The air has changed, the scene has changed.

Haruki Murakami

#9. [Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.

Ann Plato

#10. EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

Bulleh Shah

#11. But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

Haruki Murakami

#12. If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Nellie McKay

#13. He was apparently a small man, according to Mr. Higgins, with girly features, curly hair . . . and the heart of a rascal.

James McBride

#14. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

#15. Pity."
"You're serious? You just met me."
"And already I have a strong urge to devour you.

Christina Lauren

#16. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

#17. There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.

Haruki Murakami

#18. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come on the scene. Interesting verbal contrast, don't you think?

Haruki Murakami

#20. This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Haruki Murakami

#21. You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.

Haruki Murakami

#22. To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

Haruki Murakami

#23. That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Billy Corgan

#24. Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.

Haruki Murakami

#25. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami