Author of quotes: Vsevolod Ovchinnikov. Page 1



An English pub seems to me a kind of antithesis of a French cafe. The ideal Parisian sitting at a table on the sidewalk in front of the stream of strangers. the ideal of the Londoner - to escape from the worries, feeling surrounded by familiar spin.
№ 108207   Added MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 16:58
The expression "he is able to live" the Japanese have their own understanding. In their view, a man who knows how to live, sees the joy of life where others pass them.
№ 102967   Added MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 08:26
Money in new York, brothels in Paris, but the ideals - ideals only in London.
№ 68590   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
At the zoo I often had the idea that monkeys or lions people need to look the same funny how animals seem to us. After all, from their point of view, we, too, are behind bars. We are so weird. But they have the advantage to stay at home and pay nothing for the pleasure to see us. So don't be fooled by the British zoo, called England. You came to observe and study the strange beings - but above all you having fun at the same time he the British lion.
№ 68589   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
A country where dogs don't bark, and children never cry.
№ 68588   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
People often ask: how did Japan quickly escape after the war, the top three industrial countries, despite the enormous destruction from U.S. bombing; despite the fact that the country was under occupation, despite the fact that the colonies were selected, and their natural resources on the Islands, virtually no? Parodying the style of riddles, paradoxes, beloved Buddhist sect Zen, the Japanese ironic that each of these questions turns, in response, if the word "irregardless" is replaced by the word "because."
№ 68587   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
Imagine that the American trader shoes arrives in Japan, wanting to enjoy the party barefoot sandal. He finds out who exactly is the leading manufacturer of this product, and comes in contact with him.
First and foremost, it sets out recommendations on how to adjust these sandals to the demands of the American consumer. Well, let's say, to increase the maximum men's size from 38 to 44 or, for example, to make it so that the straps are not passed through between the fingers, as the Japanese, and was fastened some other way.
Manufacturer barefoot sandal has a sufficient domestic market for this purely Japanese form of shoes, there is no calculation to change the technology of production for export order. But straight to respond to the proposal the word "no" the Japanese language does not turn. He considers indispensable duty to show a semblance of interest in the application from overseas and, on behalf of his firm invites Americans to join in the fun.
First guest were treated to dinner at the most expensive restaurant, and then bypassed with him two or three cabarets and complete spree in a Japanese hotel with a large number of pseudogenes.
Generosity the cost of representation assures the American importer that the Japanese firm is very interested in making a deal with him, and he the next day proceeds to business negotiations.
Shoemaker from the beginning sure to take up the order, but prefers that the American guessed that myself.
The Japanese listens to all suggestions and explanations, even commanded his subordinates to make necessary notes, but once an American leaves the office, he at once forgets about it, writes off the expenses for the previous evening as unjustified costs of production and starts to deal with current Affairs.
When a foreign customer the next day reminds himself, he is asked to wait a couple of days and then again forget about it. If the importer calling again, he's composing incredible story that the firm was a strike, fire, flood or any other natural disaster.
If an American even then did not understand what was happening, and never unbinds, his calm, that the factory samples of the product have just sent to him by courier. Fruitlessly waited for them until evening, he finds out that the courier was in a car accident, the samples were burned along with the machine and have to wait another week until make some new ones.
The buyer party barefoot sandal, who all this time every day pays hotel bill of $ fifty, thereby helping the Japanese economy to build foreign exchange reserves, eventually loses patience and flies to Hong Kong to make your deal there.
A leading Japanese manufacturer of barefoot sandal brilliant concludes, therefore, complex negotiations, deviating from the order without uttering the word "no".
№ 68585   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
But the trouble with cartoons is that they resemble the original much more than we would like to admit.
№ 68584   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
Japanese character can be compared to a tree, over which long worked for green thumb, bending, tying, backing him. Even if to deliver then this tree from the shackles and props, to give vent to the young shoots, at their free overgrown foliage is still preserved the outlines that were once attached to the trunk and main branches. Morals, even lying somewhere deep from the surface, is the algebra of human relationships. Knowing her formula easier to solve problems posed by modern life.
№ 68582   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41
Came a strange man in overalls and yellow helmet of the Builder, presented tied with ribbon and envelope box. In the box was a gift set of three colorful pieces of toilet soap in envelope - a written apology in connection with the replacement of water pipes in the alley will have to dig a trench and disturb the surrounding residents the crackling sound of pneumatic jackhammers.
Then my wife started talking about the uniqueness of Japanese politeness. Nothing is more mesmerizing in this country at first, like an exotic courtesy.
№ 68581   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41