Japanese Quotes · Page 8

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

— James Blake

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

— Winston Churchill

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

— Tadashi Yanai

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would…

— Nicolas Cage

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

— Matthew Moy

“When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self…

— Ryū Murakami

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the…

— Ruth Ozeki

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

— Jane Seymour

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at…

— Pico Iyer

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot…

— Janis Ian

I love the way the Japanese prepare food - it's so skilful and clean.

— Tara Fitzgerald

The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.

— Dave Barry

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable,…

— Ruth Benedict

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was…

— Haruki Murakami

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it…

— Robert Lepage

“So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would…

— James Jones

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata,…

— Martin Jacques

I think Japanese people like teamwork. Sometimes they don't try to be No. 1 or different to other people. That can be…

— Kei Nishikori

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It’s amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all…

— Steve Chandler

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,…

— Ken Watanabe

“There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July”

— Johnny Corn

I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'

— Ruth Asawa

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've…

— Hugh Grant

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do -…

— Evan Davis