Takayama Quotes

#1. How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

Kiyoshi Takayama

#2. I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

Masa Takayama

#3. Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Masa Takayama

#4. You see the clouds in the sky? I made that with Vapr!

Cyril Takayama

#5. Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Samuel Beckett

#6. I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

David Sedaris

#7. Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful
but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

Jerzy Kosinski

#9. Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

Mark Batterson

#10. My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

Masa Takayama

#11. I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

Robbie Williams

#12. A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

Isak Dinesen

#14. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Fuck the Albertans," Steeply said. "Who's worried about the Albertans? The Albertans' idea of a blow to the U.S. plexus is they blow up rangeland in Montana. They're wackos.

David Foster Wallace

#16. If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that.

Ronda Rousey

#17. So I got stuck doing make-up work during spring vacation. ...I guess things could have gotten worse. But I wasn't there to visit."
-Tokidoki

Shinobu Takayama

#18. I want to know what my food has been eating.

Masa Takayama

#19. I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

Masa Takayama

#20. In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

Masa Takayama