Top 24 Haida Quotes
#1. The girls had suddenly disappeared, and Haida had taken their place.
Haruki Murakami
#2. Is it better, financially, to go to the physics department than the philosophy department?" Tsukuru asked. "When it comes to their graduates not earning anything, they're about even. Unless you win the Nobel Prize or something," Haida said, flashing his usual winning smile.
Haruki Murakami
#3. If that's true, then what's the value of human free will?"
"That's a great question," Haida said, and smiled quietly. The kind of smile a cat gives as it stretches out, napping in the sun. "I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. Not yet.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore delighted Amanda, and she vowed from that time onward she would try to regulate each breath as if she were composing a poem.
Tom Robbins
#5. I came across a Haida saying that had etched itself into my memory banks: 'Joy is a well-made object, equaled only to the joy of making it.
Adam Leith Gollner
#6. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.
Haruki Murakami
#7. Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn't to his liking.
Haruki Murakami
#8. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!
Robert Bateman
#9. One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. I don't feel bad about missing that.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Upon row of books, most of them bound in leather, reached to the ceiling several stories over their heads, illuminated by the faint glow of autumn sunlight through the marble. It was truly striking.
Linda Sue Park
#13. Saint Guy of Anderlecht was the tenth-century Belgian saint of animals, stables, workhorses, and bachelors.
Edmund White
#14. They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.
Jamie Schoffman
#15. Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.
Frederick Lenz
#16. You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.
T. Scott McLeod
#17. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
Annie Dillard
#18. He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed.
R.J. Harlick
#19. There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Andrew Jackson
#20. Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#21. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.
William Eckhardt
#22. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.
Shania Twain
#23. A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.
Bob Allen
#24. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy
Walt Whitman
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