Geisha Quotes - Page 2

• Every girl in the world should have geisha training

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Should Have, Training

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Water, Stones

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• At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

  Arthur Golden

  Death, Loss, Three

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• I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Real, Wanted

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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Dancer

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• Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

  Arthur Golden

  Suits You, Water, Personality

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

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• This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.

  Deborah Smith

  Mother, Daughter, Differences

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

  Arthur Golden

  Memories Of A Geisha

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• Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

  Arthur Golden

  Powerful, Fire, Iron

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Fire, Doe

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• We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

  Arthur Golden

  Kindness, World, Should

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• I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dance, Art, Mean

  "Wizards, Geisha and a Gorilla Hit the Flicks", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2005.

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• The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Taken, Men, Play

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• I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Discipline, Roles, Demand

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

  Helen Fielding

  Girl, Should Have, Accepted

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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