Kobudo Quotes

#1. When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.

William C. Brown

#2. I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#3. I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Deanna Raybourn

#4. Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb ... and repressive.

Luc Ferrari

#5. I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Ivan Lendl

#6. Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would eventually become inevitable, but those would have to wait until she no longer needed the cloak of who she was.

Elizabeth Bear

#7. The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Elizabeth Jenkins

#8. I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.

Mike Vallely

#9. It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Louis Sullivan

#10. Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Janet Frame

#11. This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the same description, went from wonder to ambition, from ambition to disillusion, and from disillusion to cynicism.

Muriel Barbery