#pane

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#development #japan #japanese-literature #love #love

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#america #camps #catching #concentration #every

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#italian #japanese #kitchen

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ↗

— Francis Marion

#fruit #japanese #like #make #often

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? ↗

— Robert McNamara

#children #civilians #death #doing #had

In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#because #between #black #black and white #book

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#background #came #chinese #did #i

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#chefs #dishwasher #goes #into #japanese

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#always #i #i always #ingredient #japanese