Japanese Quotes

• ...the Japanese interest him professionally. How do they and the Germans do it, when America's going down the tubes?

  

  John Updike
  • America
  • Japanese

• Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

  

  Fujio Mitarai
  • People
  • Sales
  • Mindset

• We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Stop
  • Moving
  • Japanese

• With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Society
  • Sea
  • December

• I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Important
  • Why
  • Science

• I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Japanese

• Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

  

  John Roos
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Deep

• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Done
  • English
  • Anime

• Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

  

  John Foster
  • Good
  • Japanese

• Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.

  

  Kevin James
  • Men
  • Done
  • Game

• The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Road
  • Japanese

• When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • People
  • Trying
  • Japanese

• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Good
  • Food
  • Japanese

• I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Fun
  • Japanese
  • Dishwasher

• Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Japanese

• I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Japanese

• About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

  

  Ken Watanabe
  • Business
  • Comedy
  • Mad

• I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Style
  • Quality
  • Red

• Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Japanese

• She was slender and dressed like an Edwardian maid, complete with a starched white bib apron over a full black skirt and white cotton blouse. Her face didn’t fit her outfit, being too long and sharp-boned, with black almond-shaped eyes. Despite her mob cap she wore her hair loose, a black curtain that fell to her waist. She instantly gave me the creeps and not just because I’ve seen too many Japanese horror films.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Despite

• The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Japanese

• Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Small
  • Japanese

1

...

13

14

15

16

17

18

previous

next