Kimonos Quotes

• In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

  Colleen Atwood

  Real, People, Levels

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• The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

  Lucy Liu

  Sexy, Japan, Different

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• It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Years, Zippers, Interesting

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

  Sandra Dallas

  Pain, Pride, Racism

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• I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!

  CM Punk

  Monday, Wwe, Might

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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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• I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Years, Armor

  Source: collider.com

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• The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Zippers, Buttons, Dresses

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Moon, Blue, Ice

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage

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• A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

  Natsuki Takaya

  Novelists, Pens

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• Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!

  Carlos Machado

  Father, School, Law

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• She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.

  Janet Fitch

  Notebook, Writing, Night

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Darkness, Age

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Glasses, Cameras, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)

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