The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Best Quotes

#1. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#2. There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. in mushy, wet oatmeal. "Are

Abby Klein

#5. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Haruki Murakami

#6. The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I surround myself with people who make positive decisions ... My friends and I look out for each other.

Demi Lovato

#8. That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

James Earl Jones

#10. The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

Sally Ride

#11. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#12. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Hell is knowing your fate and knowing there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#16. You are a fine piece of china. Don't let anyone treat you like a paper plate.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. I would never go back to doing the show again. I mean, every day I think about Lifestyles because somebody comes up to me and tells me how much they love the show and I should bring it back, but this is not the time to bring it back. I don't think it would be as successful today as it once was.

Robin Leach

#18. A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

P.C. Cast

#19. The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Terence McKenna

#20. I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Willem Dafoe

#21. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#22. I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.

Alexa Riley

#23. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami