Tokyo Quotes

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

— Leslie Caron

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

— Bob Hope

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

— Hideo Kojima

“As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.”

— Ruth Ozeki

I'm very, very desperate to go to Tokyo and experience it.

— Serge Gnabry

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London…

— John R. Rice

I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family…

— Takashi Murakami

I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.

— Kadeena Cox

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

— Tadao Ando

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like…

— Patrick Stump

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of…

— Dave Barry

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline…

— Paul Oakenfold

"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions…

— Aleksandra Mir

In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it…

— Satoru Iwata

When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own…

— Sung Kang

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Tokyo's like a huge pinball machine. The first time you're there, and you don't understand what's going on, it's like 'ding ding…

— Gaspar Noe

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I…

— Anonymous

We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than…

— Richard Branson

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record…

— Thomas Bangalter

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs…

— Mo Hayder

I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo,…

— William Gibson

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with…

— Stephen Bruner

I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's…

— Vladimir Putin

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of…

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Isabella Di Fabio Web development is a constantly growing field with ever-evolving coding languages ​​and libraries. The basics, however, have long remained…

— Isabella Di Fabio

A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back…The nation's marketplace of ideas is being…

— Keith Olbermann

“In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask…

— David Sedaris

“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday…

— Haruki Murakami

“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled…

— David Mitchell

“Tokyo is so vast, and can be so cruelly impersonal, that the succor provided by its occasional oasis is sweeter than that…

— Barry Eisler

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

— Robert McNamara

Here in Tokyo, this is one of my favorite Paralympics I've ever attended.

— Jessica Long

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a prestigious opportunity.

— Yui Mizuno

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

— Makoto Shinkai