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The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination. -- Semir Zeki
I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.' -- Moby
English. That was where I met him. -- Andrew Koh
I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying. -- Rodney Dangerfield
My language is the sum total of myself. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.
'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment. -- Natasha Pulley
It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell. -- Deyth Banger
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. -- Jimmy Breslin
Image is an international language. -- Marjane Satrapi
Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow. -- Edmund De Waal
I had to know at least two languages. -- Novak Djokovic
It has often been said that [ ... ] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch. -- Robert Reed
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. -- Gerald Vizenor
Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. -- Junichiro Koizumi
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. -- Arthur Golden
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' -- Alan King
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. -- Henry Rollins
yee naaldlooshii." "The -- Christine Pope
Japan appears to be the birthplace of the soup and the home of the stew. -- Neil Macgregor
Half my fan mail comes from Japan. -- Ben Barnes
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there. -- Bill Murray
Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords. -- Lucy Liu
Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance. -- Linda Holiday
In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it's reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else. -- Morinosuke Kawaguchi
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? -- Winston Churchill
she likes the sound of languages other than English. -- Ken Liu
My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well. -- Steven Seagal
Two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude. -- Will Schwalbe
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
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. -- Tadao Ando
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK. -- David Mitchell
My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language. -- Judah Friedlander
A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen. -- Masaharu Morimoto
I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language. -- S.m. Reine
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. -- Grimes
Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan. -- Hidetoshi Nakata
God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace. -- Mickey Rooney
Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan. -- Utada Hikaru
I have a good ear for languages. -- Harry Dean Stanton
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ... -- M.f.k. Fisher
Stop being silly, her name is Reshidatu. It is a pity that our official language is English, and a greater pity that our three major languages is the WaZoBia. -- S.a. David
...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions. -- Arthur Phillips
Different languages cut the world into different slices. -- Jean Berko Gleason
But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry. -- Robin Sloan
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. -- Morinosuke Kawaguchi
When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese. -- Natalie Massenet
Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion. -- Satoshi Tajiri
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi. -- Anupam Kher
I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog. -- Reggie Lee
I've always understood that my heart is multilingual. It speaks in whispers, expressions, colours, body, songs, and fervent desire. -- Cheri Bauer
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with? -- Lafcadio Hearn
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. -- Suzanne Vega
I know my own heart to be entirely English. -- Princess Anne
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin. -- Nicola Formichetti
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English. -- Rebecca Mackinnon
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. -- Dave Barry
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
The Japanese fans always send weird things. -- Tom Felton
Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't. -- Pewdiepie
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture. -- Adrienne Rich
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. -- Willie Rushton
Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere. -- David Douglas Duncan
Well, I'm English. -- Roger Michell
I know what the structure of the language is. -- Kurt Loder
Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French. -- Christopher Moore
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. -- Sophie Marceau
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. -- David Rockefeller
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. -- Neil Simon
They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese? -- Julie Otsuka
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? -- Walter F. Mondale
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics. -- Yoko Ono
My homeland is the portuguese language. -- Fernando Pessoa
Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me. -- Seungri
Stupid, perfect Asian kid -- Rainbow Rowell
I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet? -- Rick Stein
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. -- Alan Perlis
My Japanese isn't much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid. -- Gil Asakawa
I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese ... they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy. -- Ian Graham
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places. -- Tamae Watanabe
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it. -- John Roos
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures. -- Rosemary Mahoney
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings. -- Dave Barry
In Japan, we say that "words make our reality." The -- Marie Kondo
Love, my ass. The international language is food. -- Rachel Vincent
I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree.
I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English.
I'm cunninglingual. -- Sienna Mcquillen
The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy? -- Ian Somerhalder
I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language. -- Alexander Pushkin
Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall. -- Joseph Jarman
Close the language-door,
and open the love-window -- Rumi
I'm not trying to stump anybody ... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. -- Buddy Holly
I speak two languages, Body and English. -- Mae West
NI!
Oh no! Not ni! -- Graham Chapman
For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story. -- Emmanuel Lubezki
The Japanese are easily influenced,
Italian's are infectious,
And German's are German's wherever they go. -- Hidekaz Himaruya
My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on. -- Kato Lomb
You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten
Be my linguist
Turn me
into your words. -- Banoo Zan
My favourite films are in languages I don't understand. -- Chika Anadu
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. -- Paul Westerberg
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. -- John Lasseter
