Miyagi's Quotes

#1. 'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.

Martin Kove

#2. He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze.

Italo Calvino

#3. It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

Richard Grimes

#4. Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Nick Denton

#5. Stop calling me that!' Haley hissed softly. 'For the hundredth time, i am not the Daniel-Son to your Mr. Miyagi.

R.L. Mathewson

#6. Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.

Cheryl Nielsen

#7. If you have to choose between 'travelling in an ugly road to a beautiful place' and 'travelling in a beautiful road to an ugly place,' choose the second!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. You all think that security and peace are born from destroying everything stronger than you? There is no safety. There is no peace but what you make, every day, every second, with every choice.

Kim Harrison

#9. A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It's just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren't things, they're names.

Alberto Caeiro

#10. Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. What would you do if you put your trust and confidence in the Lord ? That he would never leave you, nor forsake you, and that he will do what he promises. Think about it.

Amanda Penland

#12. So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

Carl Jung

#13. What would my little grasshopper like?"
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She glared over her shoulder at him. "I'm not going to call you Mr Miyagi you know."
"Yes you will, but that's not important at the moment.

R.L. Mathewson

#14. I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Steven Hall

#15. Enough of this Miyagi crap. Point is, fight for what you want, and while you're doing that I'd like an egg mayo sandwich without that fucking cress shit on it this time.

Samantha Young

#16. Don't spend your money till you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale!

Ernest Cline