Japanese Quotes

• In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Movie
  • Death
  • Trick

• 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

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

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Japanese

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

  

  John Roos
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Deep

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

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Small
  • Japanese

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

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Fun
  • Japanese
  • Dishwasher

• Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

  

  Eisaku Sato
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.

  

  Jacques Perrin
  • Action
  • Japanese

• Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Moving
  • Taken

• 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

• As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Food

• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Good
  • Food
  • Japanese

• I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

  

  Ian Graham
  • Bad
  • Sweet
  • Wells

• At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • History
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Country
  • Why
  • Help

• I think that that's something that the Japanese are very concerned about and they're going to have to do something about in the near term. I think it's good for the world economy to have a strong Japanese economy. And their situation has been not very good for quite a long time.

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Term
  • Japanese
  • World Economy

• V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

  

  Doc Hastings
  • Fighting
  • Victory
  • Japanese

• I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Style
  • Japanese

• The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Today
  • Team
  • Inspired

• Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Country
  • Japanese

• I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Japanese
  • Legend
  • Anime

• I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

  

  David Thewlis
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• It would be great if people could guess right off that I am Japanese-Finnish-American. But then I'd have to be wearing a kimono and pulling a reindeer.

  

  Amy Hill
  • People
  • Great
  • American

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