Memoirs Of Geisha Quotes

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

Arthur Golden

#2. 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

#3. Engineers created the wealth. And during the 1990s Silicon Valley had created a fantastic amount of new wealth.

Michael Lewis

#4. Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

Tony La Russa

#5. If you feel lucky, then you are.

Katherine Center

#6. 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

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

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

#9. That seems to show that somebody knows more than we do upon the moor

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

Owen Jones

#11. I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Jeremy Irons

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

Stephen Hunter

#13. To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years
to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#14. 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

#15. I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring.

Mark Indelicato

#16. Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. You're lucky you didn't know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn't until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine.

Benedict Jacka

#18. I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Mike May

#19. 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

#20. In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#21. My lashes shuddered, and I had to force my palm against the sword's handle until cording bit into my skin, to force her back, to keep my mind clear.
But later, I promised her, she'd feed.

Chloe Neill

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Jasper Fforde

#25. 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

#26. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow