Japanese Quotes
-
At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.
-
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
-
The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
-
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
-
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
-
Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
-
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
-
I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.
-
American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.
-
I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.
-
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
-
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
-
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
-
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
-
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
-
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation.
-
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
-
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
-
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
-
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
-
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.
-
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
-
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
-
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
