Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Japanese Authors - Page 15

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.

I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

I didn't know if I would be good enough to play for an American college team. But I wanted to try.

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

If you're famous, you're not free.

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

Trust me, I hate playing five sets. I don't do it on purpose.

I think people like catchy and new types of music.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

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

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes - totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Our fans are made up of different groups of people: people who enjoy this Japanese idol scene, versus metal fans. The crowd is disorganised because everyone is reacting to the band in a different way.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

Think with your whole body.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.

We love chocolate.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.

I hope that we're creating something that fans will look forward to for every new performance.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.