Tokyo Quotes
Collection of top 76 famous quotes about Tokyo
Tokyo Quotes & Sayings
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My brother then opened a tall man's shop in Tokyo.
— Henny Youngman
People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.
— Rick Remender
Everyone causes trouble for someone at some point in their lives.
— Hiromi Kawakami
If you travel everywhere and find the same elements everywhere, somehow it reduces the value of the place (Curiosity, Tokyo, Japan)
— Editorial Board Of Approaching Hotel Designers
I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing that stands for a world of un-Frog.
— Haruki Murakami
I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.
— Christopher Barzak
I'm not going to protect you by being your shield or armor, but I'll be the dagger hidden below your pillow.
— Sui Ishida
In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
— Alexander Payne
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
— S.I. Hayakawa
Tokyo Disneyland is an aspiring despot's wet dream.
— Our Man In Abiko
I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.
— Alison Mosshart
Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by yourself.
— Olivia Sudjic
I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.
— Rick Remender
Check your privilege, Hitler! I'm a nut job, not an asshole.
— Rick Remender
I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
— Alain Ducasse
What comes from the heart will go to the heart
— Renae Lucas-Hall
Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!
— Iwane Matsui
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
— Barry Eisler
Because, Mr.. Katagiri, Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you. And it's for people like you that I am trying to save Tokyo.
— Haruki Murakami
In Tokyo, we have more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
— Haruki Murakami
Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.
— Pharrell Williams
The familiar sound of the kitchen knife, and the stove's smell, mom's back...It feels like my life in Tokyo was
just
a dream. — Mika Yamamori
being in love makes people uncertain.
— Hiromi Kawakami
Imagine if you can - hordes of asuang, prowling the streets of Tokyo, climbing the Eifel tower, walking up the White House lawn!
— Mervin Ignacio
Trusting a human is difficult, but, if it's by you, then it's probably fine if I'm betrayed.
— Sui Ishida
In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
— Roland Barthes
even a cracked pot has a lid that fits.
— Hiromi Kawakami
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
— Anthony Bourdain
I can neither live with you. Nor without you.
— Sui Ishida
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
— Charlie Trotter
Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
— Tyffani Clark Kemp
Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is. — Rick Remender
from Tokyo to Managua,
— Chuck Palahniuk
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
— Tadao Ando
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
— Dhani Harrison
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
— Vikas Swarup
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
— John Burnham Schwartz
Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst.
— Hiromi Kawakami
He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.
— Julia Spencer-Fleming
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Baby, your rhymes get me going.
— Rick Remender
In choosing both, you lose both.
— Sui Ishida
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
— Simon McBurney
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire.
— William Gibson
Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human.
— Sui Ishida
Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.
— Rick Remender
We need to have a mask that we never take off.
— Sui Ishida
From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.
— Shogo Oketani
As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.
— Ruth Ozeki
