Quotes & Sayings About Japanese Cuisine

It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash. — H.L. Mencken

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it. — David Chang

You can't be both happy and ambitious. — J.A. Konrath

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. — Austan Goolsbee

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine. — Eric Ripert

Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory? — Leonid Andreyev

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance ... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. — Jackie Chan

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways. — David Chang

It had been a dreadful miscalculation, she saw that now: that all of them should be unhappy, so that he should not be disgraced. — Jo Baker

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real. — John Dykstra

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. — Fran Lebowitz

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete. — Jane Fonda

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French. — Eva Green

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it. — Anthony Bourdain

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan. — Val McDermid

I take very few people seriously, and I'm not one of them. — Cian Beirdd

Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities. — Maynard Webb

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat. — Anastacia Oaikhena