Top 54 Kobayashi Quotes
#1. Continue your quest by taking the test
Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
Ernest Cline
#2. At least we have the record, Henry thought. A reminder of a place where people didn't seem to care what you looked like, where you were born, or where your family was from. When the music played, it didn't seem to make one lick of difference if your last was Abernathy or Anjoy, Kung or Kobayashi.
Jamie Ford
#3. Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.
Ernest Cline
#4. Who's they?" Ozzie asked. The guy's wild blond hair and Star Trek T-shirt - it read I beat the Kobayashi Maru - shouted of his secure position in the upper echelons of Geekdom as loudly as the three microsized laptops open in front of him. "Official
Julie Ann Walker
#7. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
Kobayashi Issa
#8. I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
Takeru Kobayashi
#10. I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
Takeru Kobayashi
#11. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
Kobayashi Issa
#12. In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends
Kobayashi Issa
#13. About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
Takeru Kobayashi
#14. This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet -
Kobayashi Issa
#15. Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love
Kobayashi Issa
#17. If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi
#20. This world of dew
Is only a world of dew -
and yet, and yet.
The pain is real
Midst love, tears and ashes -
Love Himself suffered.
Kobayashi
#21. I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
Takeru Kobayashi
#24. Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop
Kobayashi Issa
#25. Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.
Kobayashi Issa
#26. What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa
#27. In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
#29. Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories
Kobayashi Issa
#30. I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
Takeru Kobayashi
#32. Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other.
Kobayashi Issa
#33. Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
Takeru Kobayashi
#34. On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
Kobayashi Issa
#35. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
Kobayashi Issa
#37. The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
Takeru Kobayashi
#38. The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet
Kobayashi Issa
#41. Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together
Kobayashi Issa
#43. People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Takeru Kobayashi
#44. Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
Kobayashi Issa
#45. Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
Takeru Kobayashi
#46. Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice.
Kobayashi Issa
#47. I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
Takeru Kobayashi
#53. Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
Kobayashi Issa
#54. Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
Kobayashi Issa
