These sushi quotes will inspire you. Sushi is cold rice dressed with vinegar, formed into any of various shapes, and garnished especially with bits of raw seafood or vegetables.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sushi quotes, sushi sayings, and sushi proverbs.
Best Sushi Quotes
- “The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.” ~ Nobu Matsuhisa
- “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn’t like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.” ~ Auren Hoffman
- “I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.” ~ Kate Beckinsale
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“I could eat my body weight in sushi.” ~ Mikey Way
- “Just because I like sushi, doesn’t mean I can make sushi. I’ve come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It’s a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby” ~ Drake , Sushi quotes lover
- “I’m not making art, I’m making sushi” ~ Masaharu Morimoto
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“Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there’s nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.” ~ Francesca Annis
- “A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.” ~ Graham Norton
- “Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!” ~ Michael Kors
- “I love sushi, but I’m not going to write a column about it.” ~ Joel Stein
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“Don’t dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don’t mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “I still eat sushi, though I’m trying my best to have my last sushi roll.” ~ Kim Basinger
- “The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It’s one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food.” ~ Riteish Deshmukh
- “With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.” ~ Nobu Matsuhisa
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“I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.” ~ Jennifer Morrison
- “There’s always room for improvement.” ~ Joey Logano
- “Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.” ~ Joey Barton
- “You have to eat good! I eat gorgeous food. I eat sushi, I eat meat, I eat steaks. I eat more than you, I’m sure.” ~ Tanya Dziahileva
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“In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.” ~ Martin Yan
- “I’ve been making sushi for 38 years, and I’m still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.” ~ Masaharu Morimoto
- “I don’t speak Japanese, I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can’t exactly go up to him and say “Sushi!” out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, “T-bone steak!” ~ Sophie Kinsella , Japanese sushi quotes
- “I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn’t been cooked.” ~ Amy Lee
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“Although, I didn’t really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.” ~ Scott Wolf
- “One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it’s really fun to do.” ~ Carly Rae Jepsen , Sushi quotes homemade
- “I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean – no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.” ~ Chrissy Teigen
- “The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that, they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. They’re not better looking; they’re not smarter; they’re not classier; they’re not more charming. They probably give more blowjobs than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but it’s also society’s fault.” ~ Julie Klausner
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“I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That’s how I feel about myself.” ~ David Hasselhoff
- “I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it’s sushi.” ~ Sara Sheridan
- “Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That’s right – two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen.” ~ Jackie Mason
- “In LA, I live on sushi or salad.” ~ Denise Van Outen
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“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.” ~ Robyn Hitchcock
- “I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
- “It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there’s a Mexican.” ~ Chelsea Handler
- “Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn’t know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 – most kids today do.” ~ Emeril Lagasse
- “Whether we’re talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that’s not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That’s the question.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I’ll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.” ~ Su Shi
- “I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that’s very simple on the digestive system – I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too – sushi, sashimi and miso soup.” ~ Shilpa Shetty
- “Heaven has no taste.” “Now-” “And not one single sushi restaurant.” A look of pain crossed the angel’s suddenly very serious face.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “I mean, if your about to tell me something like I’m dead, that i need to start acquiring a taste for blood, and I can’t even eat sushi, I wont be able to handle it. Or if you’re going to tell me that I’m going to start howling at the moon, eating peoples cats, and will spend the rest of my life having to get waxed if I want to wear a bathing suit, then I don’t think I can handle it, either. I like cats and I tried waxing once, and that hurt like a son of a gun.” -Kylie” ~ C.C. Hunter
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“Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time – that’s enough. Then sushi restaurant – butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.” ~ Masaharu Morimoto
- “I’m a big fish eater. Salmon – I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I’m not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I’m beginning to like it more. I don’t like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.” ~ Elle Fanning
- “She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they’d press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.” ~ Philipp Meyer
- “You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I’m Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.” ~ Ryan Adams
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“And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.” ~ Bob Hope
- “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
- “L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “They kept saying ‘It’s sushi-grade!’ And I’m like… ‘Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.” ~ Jennifer Lawrence
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“Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
- “There is always room for improvement.” ~ Rich Gunnell
- “Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.” ~ Fred Durst
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“I don’t like venison or sushi – I don’t want to eat what some people think are ‘luxurious’ foods.” ~ Courteney Cox
- “In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.” ~ Masa Takayama
- “G-Dragon’s music is like sushi. It’s sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it.” ~ Seungri
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“And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you’d like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.” ~ Michael Grant
- “I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.” ~ Daniel Pauly
- “Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it “international month,” and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.” ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
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“I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me – how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?” ~ Carre Otis
- “When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?” ~ Rob Sheffield
- “The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“I’m always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.” ~ Jean Pigozzi
- “My wife has helped me with a lot of things. She’s also got me to like a lot of different things like sushi. I never would have tried that if it weren’t for her. I also went to Hillsong (Church) in New York for the first time with her. It’s fun to experience new things with the person you love.” ~ Jrue Holiday
- “California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.” ~ Drew Barrymore
