Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Japanese Authors - Page 4

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.

Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that's what I wanted to prioritise in 'Dark Souls' and 'Demon's Souls.'

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

I always wanted to thrill people with my dancing - just as how K-pop dancing thrilled me.

I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking.

I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on the street, the idea of using a turntable as an instrument, singing vividly about reality instead of typical love songs, and its links to graffiti and dance.

I need to study English more. I'll start by watching 'Sesame Street' every day.

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

We have dreamed of being 'the top girl group' for so long, and we are so thankful and appreciative to even be described as that.

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.

A great painting is a great painting.

After 'DmC' came out, we had a fantastic relationship with Ninja Theory, and we loved what they made. We wanted to see a sequel to that.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

I think that's a universal theme, you know: we don't know who we're going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There's always that possibility, and while you're not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

All my knowledge comes from research.

I really liked Glasgow. I really liked living there for a year. It's a very fun city, and it has a lot to offer young people who are interested in music and art. It's a very creative city.

Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

Political void should never be allowed to happen at a time of national crisis.

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

When you really think about it, it doesn't really matter where a game ends. Ultimately, if the player is satisfied with stopping at a particular point, it doesn't matter if it's where the creator intended things to end or not... and so that's where the idea of having so many endings came about.

I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.

I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

I heard of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good concept, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.'