Japanese Quotes · Page 19

“Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

— Rei Kawakubo

I enjoy eating Italian and Japanese cuisine, and abroad, I love Zuma, Nobu, and Cipriani.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

— Henry L. Stimson

I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel…

— Yoshihiko Noda

Drying her eyes, Mother said to Totto-chan very slowly, "You're Japanese and Masao-chan comes from a country called Korea. But he's a…

— Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.

— Wong Kar-wai

“According to the Japanese government, people like me who’d moved to North Korea but not changed their nationality were still Japanese citizens.…

— Masaji Ishikawa

The Japanese style, they really do have concern for their neighbors kind of more than themselves.

— Matt Sydal

To an outsider, understanding an NFL playbook is like trying to read Japanese.

— Matt Leinart

During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on…

— Barton Gellman

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

— Andrea Hirata

Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to…

— Yusaku Maezawa

“There are other ways to get back at your phone you know, if it's being naughty, you could simply make it communicate…

— Holly Denham

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

— Robert Reed

Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

“To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force…

— Karel Van Wolferen

Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action…

— Hideo Kojima

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way…

— Masahiro Tanaka

“In old Chinese novels, especially in the Kimpeibai, usually after every ten or twenty pages of innocent description, the author invariably throws…

— Ōgai Mori

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

— Linda Sarsour

“In that sense, “otaku” referred to a sudden, spontaneous, and, to most Japanese, inexplicable eruption of extreme obsessiveness among the country’s youth.…

— Frank Rose

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night…

— Dave Barry

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing…

— Robert Fulghum

I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In classic Japanese cooking, shrimp like…

— Nobu Matsuhisa