Top 1200 Japanese Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

My husband is half Japanese and half white European-American, and our son is half Korean, quarter Japanese, and a quarter white European-American.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator?it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

My life was very Japanese.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Japanese food is healthy, but it doesn't make you bigger.

What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

I'm really grateful that I get a lot of Japanese press.

The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

Drying her eyes, Mother said to Totto-chan very slowly, "You're Japanese and Masao-chan comes from a country called Korea. But he's a child, just like you. So, Totto-chan, dear, don't ever think of people as different. Don't think, 'That person's a Japanese, or this person's a Korean.' Be nice to Masao-chan. It's so sad that some people think other people aren't nice just because they're Koreans.

It's an honour to be Japanese.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

New York allows you to go deeper into the person you want to be. You're able to explore whatever your specific interests might be. You can eat good Japanese food if you want to eat good Japanese food. You can go and see your favorite author reading, and you can still listen to Radio Ulster on the internet as you have your breakfast. I love that.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.

I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.