Famous Quotes & Sayings

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Bill Maher

They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

Bill Maher

Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'

Carrie Ann Inaba

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Carlos Ghosn

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

The joint statement had less to do with Taiwan and more to do with the rise of China, and how Japan and the United States feel a threat from China, ... The joint statement is a signal to China: 'Don't push too far.'

Paul Watson

I know when I am being harassed. It seems to me that Japan is pulling some strings around here.

The U.S. and Japanese markets are down, so people want to wait until Monday when the futures settle.

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

Donnie Yen

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Steve Ballmer

I know for sure, 100 percent, we will do much, much better in Japan than we did with Xbox I, but that wouldn't be too hard.

If there are Japanese beetles on the raspberries, we will pick them off by hand.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isabella Bird

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Ikue Mori

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

Thelma Drake

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

Henry Rollins

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

Paul Weller

If you take skinny jeans - skinny jeans didn't just happen in the US, they were happening in Japan, they were happening in the UK, they were happening everywhere. Some places a little faster than others. But, if we look at our best sellers in this store, they're the same best sellers that we have in the States.

James Forrestal

If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

And it was just more robotic statements about the Japanese yen.

Matthew Sweet

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Hu Jintao

something the Japanese side should seriously reflect on.

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Roman Coppola

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

Randall Munroe

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.