Geisha Memoirs Quotes

#1. A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Andrew Stanton

#2. I don't particularly want to think of your funeral because I'd much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.

Agatha Christie

#3. Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

Arthur Golden

#4. Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Arthur Golden

#5. It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

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

Stephen Hunter

#8. They were in that bed together for a long time, taking the sweetness of life in the shadow of death.

Alter S. Reiss

#9. I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Arthur Golden

#10. I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be

Arthur Golden

#11. Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects.

John Rush

#12. Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Ida B. Wells

#13. I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for ... because everyday was a special occasion with your father.

Donna VanLiere

#14. 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

#15. Once you feel with the right person, you will then feel life and see life in a different light then you will not be afraid of it

Anonymous

#16. Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs wrapped in wrinkled silk. - Chapter 10, pg 124

Arthur Golden

#17. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. a

Arthur Golden

#18. 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

#19. She was the one. Our time together seemed to flash before my eyes, all of our many conversations, ranging from our deepest thoughts and hang-ups to the strange and funny. It was her. It had always been her.

Penelope Ward

#20. Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Laura Prepon

#21. Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

Kenneth Clarke