Best Japanese Quotes
574 Japanese quotes by 418 unique authors
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Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by…
— Peter Drucker
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
— William Halsey
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Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to…
— Graves B. Erskine
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The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
— Lester Cole
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
— Francis Marion
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The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
— J. P. McEvoy
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Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique.…
— Masaharu Morimoto
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We must not again underestimate the Japanese.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours…
— William Halsey
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While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...
— Jeremiah Denton
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because…
— Tom Hanks
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I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'They'll be another one floating by any minute now.'
— Gilbert Gottfried
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I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.
— Corey Haim
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God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them and let's have peace.
— Mickey Rooney
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I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so…
— Toni Collette
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I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an…
— Jason Bateman
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If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.
— Jackie Chan
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Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly…
— Suzanne Vega
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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called…
— Masaharu Morimoto
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Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
— Masaharu Morimoto
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I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
— Aziz Ansari
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I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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418 authors contributed a total of 574 Japanese Quotes, led by these top contributors: