Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae. — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard. — RM Copy Share Image
But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it,… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way. — Marty Natalegawa Copy Share Image
“My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I’m using and which mode I’m… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long… — Mariko Nagai Copy Share Image
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
“The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“...O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son. How dare… — Ryunosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II… — Stefan Tanaka Copy Share Image
“I have no idea what to say next. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered… — Barbara Bloom Copy Share Image
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
“Hmm... the noodles are good. I can taste the flour; their scent and flavor are clear, not masked by the smell of… — Tetsu Kariya Copy Share Image
“One widespread stereotype about people in Japan is that they're exceptionally dedicated and hardworking, even though some Japanese people say they look… — Hector Garcia Puigcerver Copy Share Image
“Kuribayashi had the benefit of having traveled in the United States, and he had even attended Harvard for a short time. In… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the… — Joyce Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Eating a meal in Japan is said to be a communion with nature. This particularly holds true for both tea and restaurant… — Victoria Abbott Riccardi Copy Share Image
“An American pilot flying a Spad VII swooped low and dropped a bomb over their position. Walter was hit and badly wounded.… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“some Japanese philosophers have been eager to graft the newly introduced discipline of western academic philosophy onto its premodern Japanese antecedents. The… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' — Alan King Copy Share Image
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience. — James Blake Copy Share Image
Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
