T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.”
“The Japanese island of Okunoshima, also called “Rabbit Island” after the many furry inhabitants who live there, was once home to Japan’s poison gas factories. The rabbits are descendants of ones used for chemical testing during World War II.”
Source: Are You Sh*tting Me?: 1,004 Facts That Will Scare the Crap Out of You
“the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee.”
Source: The Fall of Language in the Age of English
“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The Japanese only really started eating what we think of as Japanese food in the years after the Second World War.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.”
“The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.”
“The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.”
“the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.”
Source: 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
“The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.”
“The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.”
“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.”
Source: Dave Barry Does Japan
“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.”
Source: Dave Barry Does Japan
“The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.”
“The Japanese were again committed to a useless fight to the death.”
Source: The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
“the Japanese word for 'spinach,' she said, was a homonym for their word for 'secret love'. Thus, ever since the Heian period, giving someone a present wrapped in a bag of spinach-green had been the most eloquent way of giving him one's heart.”
Source: The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
“The Japanese word zen in fact means "meditation" or "state of meditative concentration." In Chinese, zen is pronounced chan. Chan is short for channa, which is how the CHinese pronounced dhyana, the Sanskrit word used in India for practices or rarified states of meditative concentration.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“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.”
“The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.”
Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“The jar her hand had chosen—and it was an odd old wooden jar, a recognizable crooked shape under her fingers, a reject because it would not sit straight on a shelf, the only empty jar she could find when at the last minute she’d decided to take a little more honey on her journey, a little of the mysterious honey, the honey that seemed to suggest laughter and joy and a long bright horizon, the strong-tasting honey whose distinguishing source she could not identify. She’d almost laughed when she decanted it because the bigger crock it lived in was also very crooked, not merely a reject but so lopsided that her mother had kept trying to throw it out, and her father kept rescuing it; and when her father died her mother kept it after all, for those memories of him. Mirasol had thought, as she carefully poured, that perhaps this honey had an affinity for those who do not sit securely, who do not rest peacefully, who limp instead of walk. She hadn’t quite been able to laugh, but she’d been smiling when she tucked it into its corner of a saddlebag, and the smile had been as refreshing as cold water Ron a hot day. This was the honey that had given her energy in the sennight past when she had none, the honey she had put last into the cup for her last-of-all stop on the pavilion hill.”
Source: Chalice
“The jar of oil is sacred anointing”
“The jar of oil, shall never run out.”
“The jar shall never ceased to be filled with oil.”
“The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.”
“The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.”
“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels. When everyone was poor, the whole world cooked and kept warm using polluting renewable energy sources like wood and dung...In the poor world, replacing fossil fuels with new renewable energy sources like wind and solar power is hard because most people desperately want MUCH MORE power at lower cost, not fickle power at high cost.” -pp. 104-5”
“The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.”
“The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.”
“The Jawbreaker writer-director Darren Stein was a huge fan of Carrie and Halloween. He was like a kid. He was 26, so he was such a fan. He wanted William Katt and I, from Carrie, to be in the movie as the parents. We had a little bit more that ended up on the cutting-room floor, but that was kind of fun. Everybody that worked on that movie was really cool, including the girls, especially the new girl, the blonde, Judy Greer.”
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”
“The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.”
Source: Poetry is
“The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.”
“The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.”
“The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.”
“The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.”
“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.”
“The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.”
“The jazz musician's function is to feel.”
“The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.”
“The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.”
Source: The Kennan Diaries
“The jealous and the foolish ones thought that they won after Prophet Muhammad [S.A.W.] had gone from Mecca to Medina! In history, they are only known as the evil conspirators but Hazrat Muhammad [S.A.W.] is the last prophet and the greatest human being!”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.”
Source: Fantomina and Other Works
“The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.”
“The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.”
“The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.”
“The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.”