Kimono Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Prince Kai?" Peony spun toward her so fast, she tripped on the skirts of Adri's kimono and fell, screaming, onto her bed. "Who's Prince Kai?" she yelled, struggling to sit back up. "Only my future husband!

Marissa Meyer

#5. The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

Molly Crabapple

#6. Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels.

Tor Udall

#7. We are totally open kimono with regulators.

Jamie Dimon

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.

Isabella Bird

#11. 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

#12. Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber.

Erin Morgenstern

#13. I love kimonos because you can just throw them on over anything. Ever since I got my first kimono from Lane Bryant in high school and thought, 'This is amazing; I can wear it with everything!'

Lizzo

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

Hiroyuki Sanada

#15. I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!

CM Punk

#16. I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The

Jessi Klein

#17. Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe.

Jonathan Dunne

#18. This ragged heart," she said, pulling at her kimono. "I should rip it out and bury it for compost.

Janet Fitch

#19. That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Edna Ferber

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. A novelist can't be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Natsuki Takaya

#23. I have one request to make of you, which embarrasses me very much. You remember the hemp kimono of Mother's which you altered so that I could wear it next summer? Please put it in my coffin. I wanted to wear it.

Osamu Dazai

#24. Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Kale turned away from me and stepped to Alex. "I know exactly what that means, and if you say it again, I'll touch you."
"Sorry, dude," Alex said, waving his hands. He flashed Kale a mock frown. "I don't swing that-

Jus Accardo

#29. I understand you. I know you love me. I wish you were there.

Auliq Ice

#30. muted tones of puce--the color of tongue and bologna

Wendy Wunder

#31. A compassionate concern for others' well-being is the source of happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

Thom S. Rainer

#33. Sometimes coaches can teach you new information, new strategies and skills;

Anthony Robbins

#34. Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Lauren

Viola Shipman

#35. The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere.

S.J Perelman

#36. I can promise you that I could be sent back to live this year a hundred times, and I would always choose you. I would always. Choose. You.

Andrea Lochen

#37. Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

Barbara Holland

#38. In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

Morgan Freeman

#39. As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

Mikhail Tal