Quotes About Osaka

#1. 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

#2. Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.

Yasunari Kawabata

#3. After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Lawrence R. Klein

#4. Nobody wants a house in Osaka,' he said, and it was strange to hear him switch suddenly to foreign pronunciation in the middle of his English. 'It would mean you had to live in Osaka.'

'What's wrong with it?'

'It's like . . . Birmingham.

Natasha Pulley

#5. There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

Toru Hashimoto

#6. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Saul Bellow

#7. The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Rob Lowe

#8. I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

Don Shula

#9. Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

Anna Quindlen

#10. Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#11. Our creature comforts

Matthew Henry

#12. To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

Taylor Swift

#13. If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

Howie Mandel

#14. Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

Neal A. Maxwell

#15. A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

Leon Uris

#16. I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

Jehan Sadat