Japanese Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Japanese
Japanese Quotes & Sayings
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Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
— Joseph Jarman
Four more times the Japanese strafed them, sending Louie into the water to kick and punch at the sharks until the bomber had passed.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language.
— S.M. Reine
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
— Josephus Daniels
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
My life was very Japanese.
— Bryan Clay
If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.
— Stanley Ralph Ross
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
— Glenn Reynolds
Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other.
— Inazo Nitobe
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
— P. J. O'Rourke
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
— Wong Kar-Wai
Is it white wine? Red tastes like vinegar.''Of course it's white wine, I'm Japanese. — Natasha Pulley
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
— Niall Ferguson
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
— Yoshihiko Noda
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 old fart.
— Jason Bateman
And where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.
— Hideyuki Kurata
Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.
— Manohla Dargis
I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.
— Scott Fujita
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
— Chiaki Kuriyama
That's why even the simplest, most basic Japanese sentence cannot be translated into English!
— Tae Kim
Welcome to thee,O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way. — Okakura Kakuzo
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.
— Seishiro Itagaki
If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.
— Haruki Murakami
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
— Henry L. Stimson
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
— Alex Ferguson
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
— Niall Ferguson
As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.
— Japan Foundation
In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.
— H.E. Davey
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
— Akio Morita
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
— Barbara Demick
I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.
— Lauren Beukes
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
— Robert M. Pirsig
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
— Kenzo Tange
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
— Paul Theroux
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
— J. Paul Getty
Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
— Michael Pollan
Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding.
— William Gibson
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
— Masaru Ibuka
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
— Akio Morita
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
— Paul Watson
She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.
— Linda Gerber
Japanese tea ceremony,
— Sheryl Berk
Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.
— Donna Tartt
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
— David Rockefeller
I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.
— Ryunosuke Akutagawa
People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom
— Koji Suzuki
I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.
— Chelsea Handler
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
— Arthur Golden
Die? Then so be it.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
— Isamu Noguchi
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
— Herb Alpert
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
— Akio Morita
What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
— L'Wren Scott
Japanese had reported sinking her so many times that she had acquired an additional sobriquet, "the Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast.
— William F. Halsey
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
— Natan Sharansky
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
— Tadao Ando
There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I
— David Leadbeater
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
— Chuck Grassley
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
— Toyin Odutola
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
— Ingrid Newkirk
The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
— Steve Jobs
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It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.
— Hiroyuki Sanada
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
— Isaac Mizrahi
That's Chinese, not Japanese
— Lauren Myracle
There's no end to suspicion once you get going.
— Koushun Takami
The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.
— Katsuya Okada
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
— Minoru Yamasaki
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
— Walter F. Mondale
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
— Pierre Dukan
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
— Clive James
Does the Japanese race, wonders Jacob, derive gratification from self-inflicted misery?
— David Mitchell
The Japanese are easily influenced,Italian's are infectious,
And German's are German's wherever they go. — Hidekaz Himaruya
The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
— Katherine Paterson
