Okinawan Quotes

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

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#2. '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

#3. 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

#4. I'm a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I'm thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you've heard of me." After

Homer Hickam

#5. We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.

Ira Chaleff

#6. If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Anish Kapoor

#7. Women's work, like much blue-collar work and agrarian work, is often invisible and uncredited, the work that holds the world together - maintenance work as the great feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles called it in her Maintenance Art manifesto.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

Oscar Robertson

#9. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.

Corey Ann Haydu

#10. She squirmed in his embrace, slipping around in his arms to face him. He smiled at her, one of those lazy, melting smiles he gave so rarely, and kissed her.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

#12. I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

Steve Coogan

#13. I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

Tim Blake Nelson

#14. I was always the frugal kid growing up because I was saving for college. Or I was always that kid that was like, 'I'm going to save my babysitting money so I can eat an expensive dinner when I go to Europe.'

Shailene Woodley

#15. I can't believe I've missed this sport. It's all about fingering holes and caressing balls.

K.A. Mitchell

#16. It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on,

Charlie Sheen

#17. This was an unbelievable experience.

Stephen Curry

#18. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself

Leo Tolstoy