Japanese Quotes

• I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half Japanese at heart.

  

  Scott Fujita
  • Body
  • Blood
  • Japanese

• 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

• There is no reality in the fond expectation that Britain will leave the country in simple response to a Congress slogan. Besides, by asking the British to leave, the Congress was issuing an open invitation to a colonising power more brutal by far, the Japanese.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Leave
  • Congress
  • Britain

• Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Eyes

• The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Japanese
  • Shores
  • Dead fish

• And nobody knew. The Japanese pulled all of their hair out trying to decipher the code. But it's one of the hardest languages to learn, that's why it was never decoded or deciphered.

  

  Chester Nez
  • Hardest
  • Code
  • Languages

• 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

• Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Suicide
  • Japanese
  • Cute

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Happy
  • Thanks
  • Japanese

• One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Model
  • Legacy
  • Japanese

• I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • American
  • Small
  • Japanese

• There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • She
  • Husband
  • Feminist

• I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Small
  • Japanese

• I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Done
  • American
  • Culture

• Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Baby

• It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Money
  • Gold
  • Chinese

• The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Japanese

• I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Car
  • Understand
  • Radio

• Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

  

  Josephus Daniels
  • Surprise
  • Radio
  • Possessions

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