Japanese Quotes

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

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Small
  • Japanese

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

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I love Shogun world. It's so beautiful. The performances are beautiful. It's like classic Japanese cinema, with a little 'Westworld' twist.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese

• The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Japanese

• It's like Shelley. Like Werther. Like a Japanese Ophelia. Like a beautiful Oriental Lady in the Lake.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese
  • Lake

• The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Dishonour

• Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Dream
  • Sensations
  • Daily Life

• If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Chinese

• 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

• 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

• Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.

  

  Arjuna Mahendran
  • Japanese
  • Invest
  • Markets

• I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Japanese
  • Sensibility

• We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Honest
  • Emotions
  • Japanese

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Knowledge
  • System
  • Baristu

• I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Japanese
  • Interviews

• Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Gods
  • Japanese
  • World War II

• Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Japanese
  • Complain

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