“When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about… — Takeru Kobayashi Copy Share Image
The cool thing is, when we first did our joint Ring Of Honour-New Japanies Wrestlers, I think that definitely existed. I think… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“It’s clear that if we use the mind attentively, mental power is increased, and if we concentrate the mind in the moment,… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating… — Nancy Ross Rosenberger Copy Share Image
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform… — Kohei Uchimura Copy Share Image
“Like families all over Japan, that morning we tucked into a special New Year's breakfast soup called ozoni . Although recipes vary… — Victoria Abbott Riccardi Copy Share Image
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
“However keen you may be to begin your study, before you venture on to the mat and attempt any of the basic… — Sadami Yamada Copy Share Image
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair… — Emmanuelle Vaugier Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Our foreign ministries will simply need to sort out some purely technical matters. I see no political restraints here. The same applies… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When Japanese went to Hawaii they would go straight and buy the same thing that they would buy in Japan. They just… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet… — Steve Kimock Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the… — John Howard Copy Share Image
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image