J Quotes
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“Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!”
“Japanese consumers require and expect a lot of detailed information when making a purchase decision.”
Source: Buyer Behaviour of Japanese Students in New Zealand
“Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.”
“Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.”
“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”
Source: Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe: How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan--and Japan to the West
“Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.”
“Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.”
“Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.”
“Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.”
“Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.”
“Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.”
“Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.”
“Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.”
“Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.”
“Japanese people like New Zealand, the quality of education, the beautiful natural surroundings, the value for money and the perceived high safety aspect. These unique characteristics attract tourists, working holidaymakers and students alike.”
Source: Buyer Behaviour of Japanese Students in New Zealand
“Japanese people may find this surprising, but eel is a common ingredient in European cuisine.
Kurokiba's Eel Matelote from the Classic's Semifinal Round is one such European dish."
"Southern Italy in particular has a tradition of eating eel right around Natale, which is Christmas. It's often served during the feasts for La Vigilia on Christmas Eve night.
The eels are supposed to symbolize devils, and eating them is thought to be a charm warding off bad luck and evil spirits.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 25 [Shokugeki no Souma 25]
“Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.”
“Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.”
“Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!”
“Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.”
“Japanese students come from an advanced, sophisticated society, have a unique cultural identity and require a range of products and services to meet their education needs.”
Source: Buyer Behaviour of Japanese Students in Australia
“Japanese students judge a school by its appearance, what it looks like inside and out. They want up to date computers that can read, write and accept Japanese characters. They want the same level of technology they use and have in Japan.”
Source: Buyer Behaviour of Japanese Students in Australia
“Japanese students when compared to other countries students clearly stand out as highly desirable long-term students. Their high level of literacy, visa access, motivation to study, scholastic ability, and value as alumni make them a sort after student market in Asia”
Source: Buyer Behaviour of Japanese Students in Australia
“Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”
“Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.”
“Japanese train signs, station signs, are really representative of the Japanese mind to me, because it always has the station where you are, the station you were previously at, and the station that is the next station. When I came to New York, I was very confused. It just doesn't say where I was and where I was going. But I realized after a while probably most people don't need to know what station you were previously at. But I think it's just some weird Japanese mentality that we need to know, we need to connect the plot.”
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work.
...Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.”
“Japanese water is soft and its low mineral composition is better for making soup.
Miso soup sets me up for the day as surely as a bowl of porridge, though I have been known to take both. In Kanagawa or Kyoto, Okinawa or Sapporo, that soup may be made with dashi-- a delicate broth of smoked dried fish and seaweed-- and miso, a light (shiro) or red (aka) paste of fermented soybeans. Shiro miso has the color of thick heather honey or fudge, is lightly salty and makes for easy drinking. Aka miso is red-brown, more savory and umami-rich than the white, and makes, to my mind at least, a more soulful, almost melancholy broth.
Sometimes there are shreds of seaweed or a few tiny clams waiting at the bottom of your bowl, like treasure. Soup-- clear, aromatic and lightly salty-- is a gentle way to begin the day. I am lulled, sip by slow sip, back into the rhythm of life. I start my day in good heart.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Japanese women are required to be self-denying, hard-working and ascetic, and in the same breath, to be feminine, soft and caring towards men.”
Source: Butter
“Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.”
“Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.”
Source: Fear and Trembling: A Novel
“Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.”
“Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.”
Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED
“Japanimation is a whole different art form.”
“Japhy,' I said out loud, 'I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I owe so much to Desolation, thank you forever for guiding me to the place where I learned it all. Now comes the sadness of coming back to cities and I've grown two months older and there's all that humanity of bars and burlesque shows and gritty love, all upsidedown in the void God bless them, but Japhy you and me forever we know, O ever youthful, O ever weeping.' Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said 'God I love you' and looked up to the sky and really meant it. 'I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.'
To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
And in keeping with Japhy's habit of always getting down on one knee and delivering a little prayer to the camp we left, to the one in the Sierra, and the others in Marin, and the little prayer of gratitude he had delivered to Sean's shack the day he sailed away, as I was hiking down the mountain with my pack I turned and knelt on the trail and said 'Thank you, shack.' Then I hadded 'Blah,' with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.”
“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”
Source: As You Like it
“Jarak
Bagaimana mungkin kupertaruhkan kebahagiaanku dalam namamu, Kay?
Bukankah kau cuma jeda setelah pertunjukan?
Langit yang menolak menjadi tua dan waktu yang urung menjemput pagi.
Percakapan kita terhenti entah sampai di mana.
Luka yang terus menerus kau torehkan di dada;
Tangisan penyesalan dan nasib tak berketentuan.
Apakah masih ada pengharapan di setiap renyah tawa yang kau tebarkan?
Ataukah itu hanya seringai palsu di balik sebuah senyuman?
Tentu saja kita tak pernah sungguh-sungguh saling mencintai.
Aku hanya mengagumi keberanianmu untuk tak berpura-pura ingin menjadi matahari.
Sedang tak akan kau dapati kebahagiaan yang engkau impikan dalam diriku serupa laut biru.
Kita hanya saling menatap kekosongan dari balik layar ponsel yang tak lagi mampu menyatakan perasaan.
Sambil barangkali menerka-nerka apa yang akan terjadi selanjutnya di antara kita.
Bukankah jarak sesungguhnya hanyalah sehembus nafas?
Demikian pun perasaanku padamu, yang sayangnya tak pernah kau pedulikan.
Oktober 2025”
“jarak berbanding lurus dengan rindu.”
“JARAK
dan Adam turun di hutan-hutan
mengabur dalam dongengan
dan kita tiba-tiba di sini
tengadah ke langit; kosong sepi”
Source: Hujan Bulan Juni
“Jarak itu sebenarnya tak pernah ada. Pertemuan dan perpisahan dilahirkan oleh perasaan”
Source: Celana Pacarkecilku di Bawah Kibaran Sarung
“Jaraklah yang mempertemukan kita. Bukan memisahkan. Bila tak ada jarak, tiada kita. Hanya aku. Kamu.”
“Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.”
“Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.”
Source: The Host
“Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.”
Source: Unspoken
“Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.”
Source: Unspoken
“Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.”