All Quotes

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
‐‐ James Cameron

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
‐‐ Grace Abbott

The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
‐‐ Paul Weller

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
‐‐ Paul Weller

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
‐‐ James McBride

The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.
‐‐ Craig Venter

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
‐‐ Billy Higgins

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
‐‐ Jerome Cady

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

The Japanese fans always send weird things.
‐‐ Tom Felton

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
‐‐ Ichiro Suzuki

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
‐‐ Jack Adams

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
‐‐ Akihito

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.
‐‐ Shuji Nakamura

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
‐‐ Lester Cole

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
‐‐ Herb Alpert

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.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

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.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
‐‐ Mose Allison

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.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
‐‐ John Scofield

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
‐‐ George Benson

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
‐‐ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
‐‐ Richard Perle

The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
‐‐ Andrew Buchan

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

The jests of the rich are ever successful.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
‐‐ Hu Shih

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.
‐‐ Pope Francis

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
‐‐ Daniel Berrigan