Quotes of: Geisha Keyword

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

Ziyi Zhang

Shinkichi: I'll have a bath. Geisha Seitaro 'Osei' Naruto: Me, too. Shinkichi: No! Men first! Geisha Seitaro 'Osei' Naruto: I am a man!

Zatoichi

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

Arthur Golden

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

Ziyi Zhang

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

Memoirs of a Geisha

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Memoirs of a Geisha

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Memoirs of a Geisha

No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.

Autobiography of a Geisha

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Memoirs of a Geisha

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Memoirs of a Geisha

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Memoirs of a Geisha

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Memoirs of a Geisha

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Memoirs of a Geisha

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Memoirs of a Geisha

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Memoirs of a Geisha

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

Stephen Hunter

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Ziyi Zhang

To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, or roots, can you go on calling yourself a tree? "I...

Memoirs of a Geisha