Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Jones

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Lafcadio Hearn

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?

Louis Farrakhan

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

Jim Costa

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

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.

Mark Zandi

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Klare

...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

Michael K. Simpson

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

Michio Kaku

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

Mark Mothersbaugh

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

Milton Friedman

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

Milton Friedman

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

Milton Friedman

The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

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

It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea.

It was always a question of 'when' Japan would turn around, not 'if' Japan would turn around.

It's going to make the Japanese nervous. And it's going to put pressure on the Japanese prime minister.

Jon Jovi

It's been 22 years of making records and I must have been to Japan 25 times or more. There's not too many things in the world I haven't seen.

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

There was a possibility that the negotiations would come to a deadlock if Japan did not pay.

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.'

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

Paul Watson

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

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.

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

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.

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.

Manmohan Singh

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.