Quotes About Geisha

#1. To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

Michelle Yeoh

#2. The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Diana Vreeland

#3. For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

Ziyi Zhang

#4. From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

Zhang Ziyi

#5. There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Ziyi Zhang

#6. In Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, the first of Japan's two Nobel laureates, describes the sad and sorry love affair of a geisha from the country and an intellectual from the city. It's

Nancy Pearl

#7. I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Arthur Golden

#8. Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

Arthur Golden

#9. It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

Deirdre Madden

#10. Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

Michelle Yeoh

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

Stephen Hunter

#12. A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Arthur Golden

#13. It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

Arthur Golden

#14. What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

Arthur Golden

#15. Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.

Arthur Golden

#16. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

Arthur Golden

#17. She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

Arthur Golden

#18. 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

#19. Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an
accepted status - like geisha girls do

Helen Fielding

#20. 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

#21. Anyway I think I met him in the Swai. I was a Geisha, he was a Samurai

Nicki Minaj

#22. Your powers of observation are formidable, Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

Stephanie Wardrop

#23. trees [-]
Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a 'person-of-the-arts,' limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind's music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#24. The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

Karl Lagerfeld

#25. Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

Arthur Golden

#26. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.

Okamoto Kanoko

#27. 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

#28. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Mingmei Yip

#29. We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

Arthur Golden

#30. 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

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

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

#33. Being in love isn't the only way of loving. I realized with all my being that if you loved somebody- it didn't matter who it was- and dedicated yourself to bringing joy to your loved one, you, too, would be redeemed.

Sayo Masuda

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

Arthur Golden

#35. What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.

Sayo Masuda

#36. For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness
a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

Arthur Golden

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

Sayo Masuda

#42. A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Arthur Golden

#43. [ ... ] we drank each other up with so much yearning and need that afterward I felt myself drained of all the things the Chairman had taken from me, and yet filled with all that I had taken from him.

Arthur Golden