Jiro Quotes

#1. Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Raymond E. Feist

#2. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Course, and were part of his life with Jiro.

Edmund De Waal

#4. Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.

David Chang

#5. I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.

Charles Kinglsey

#6. The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

Julia Marlowe

#7. Curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere

Jeffrey Rasley

#8. Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow

#9. The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.

Rand Paul

#10. You do know what we're dealing with here, don't you?" I ask. "She's not just a ghost. She's a hurricane. Overkill is fine by me.

Kendare Blake

#11. We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

Mildred D. Taylor

#12. If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

Rod Serling

#14. You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work ... You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That's the secret of success.

Chef Jiro

#15. Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.

Jiro Taniguchi

#16. Mark Twain was virtually alone among journalists in his reportage of Jewish Europeans as caught in the pincers of rising nationalist antagonisms.

Ron Powers

#17. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson