Quotes About Samurai

#1. I watch mostly every martial arts movie ... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

Tony Jaa

#2. In the half-light through the drawn curtains she sits on her perch, relaxed, hooded, extraordinary. Formidable talons, wicked, curved black beak, sleek, cafe-au-lait front streaked thickly with cocoa-coloured teardrops, looking for all the world like some cappuccino samurai.

Helen Macdonald

#3. The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

Nabeshima Naoshige

#4. Kim: Hey ... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword.
Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#5. My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword - that should tell you all you need to know.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai,
the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

Okakura Kakuzo

#7. No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He

Jack Higgins

#8. The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

Lyoto Machida

#9. You are not a samurai, Nate. You're a medically-savvy immortal with Star Wars bed sheets.

Chelsea Fine

#10. brace covered his neck. Dark, fingerless gloves covered his hands to allow a better grip on his shotgun. An aluminum baseball bat was slung across his back, Samurai-style, in a crude scabbard next to a large backpack He

Keith C. Blackmore

#11. It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.

Enson Inoue

#12. I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

Doug Solter

#13. Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and ... you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay ... now be Samurai.

Jerzy Grotowski

#14. The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

George Lucas

#15. The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

Dustin Diamond

#16. Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#17. As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

Kato Kiyomasa

#18. Now, let's not be hasty,' said Mik 'What exactly is a samurai, really? Do you think that's something we should know before we wish it?'
'Good point. It might turn us both into Japenese men.' She squinted at him. 'Would you still love me if I were a Japenese man?'
'Of course

Laini Taylor

#19. I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

Masaharu Morimoto

#20. 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

#21. I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.

Ann Nocenti

#22. You seem to be under the misconception that if you perform one brave deed, that alone makes you a samurai. Well it doesn't! you let that one act of loyalty convince you of your righteousness. The more convinced you became, the more harm you caused yourself and everyone else.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#23. Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#24. I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

Michael Chabon

#25. I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#26. 47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#27. I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Tony Goldwyn

#28. I'm starting to question our choice of life skills," she whispered to him.
"I know. Why aren't we samurai?"
"Let's be samurai," she said.

Laini Taylor

#29. A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Inazo Nitobe

#30. I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.

Ann Nocenti

#31. If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

Paulo Coelho

#32. You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

Kelley Armstrong

#33. Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

Carlson Gracie

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

Nicki Minaj

#35. We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof ...

Takayuki Yamaguchi

#36. Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.

Brian Klemmer

#37. Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

Steven Spielberg

#38. I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

Alexander Payne

#39. Kim Stanley Robinson wields a pen like a samurai sword

Me

#40. A spiritual path for the modern samurai, but in the service of the heart, not the dictatorship of the ego.

Vincent Thibault

#41. When the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout counter of our dreams, we must not be afraid to hurl the fruit cocktail can of hope.

Dave Barry

#42. Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Edward Zwick

#43. Let's think about something more cheerful, shall we? Like puppies or flowers or samurai swords.

Heather Wood

#44. I know nothing about how to win over others. I know only the way know the way to win over myself.
attributed to the (master) swordsman Yagyu, who was a teacher (and samurai?) to the Shogun himself.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#45. A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.

Chris Bradford

#46. No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam!

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#47. 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

#48. There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle ... Perhaps ...

Jean-Pierre Melville

#49. I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

Nagisa Oshima

#50. Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.

Timothy Ferriss

#51. Be a Samurai.
Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

Laini Taylor

#52. It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#53. Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.

Christine Gran

#54. The new book is a result of my well-documented ... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

Stephen Hunter

#55. The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

Barry Eisler

#56. I wasn't hip to 'Samurai Jack' until I saw it, but then I was all, 'This show is awesome!'

John DiMaggio

#57. One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

George Lucas

#58. You know, there's a joke in there somewhere. A Highlander, a Viking, and a Samurai walk into a bar.

N.R. Walker

#59. It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#60. If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

Frederick Lenz

#61. Scientist and smart fellow learner-of-stuff, want to do samurai-monster training with us? We intend to become dangerous.

Laini Taylor

#62. The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#63. We are samurai, Lord. Death defines us. We must become a master of dealing it to our enemies, yes, but most of all lose all fear of our own.

David Kirk

#64. I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

Tom Cruise

#65. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.

Culadasa

#66. Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation.

Stephanie Mills

#67. Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.

David Carradine

#68. My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.

Lyoto Machida

#69. Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

Lucy Liu

#70. As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

Yamaoka Tesshu

#71. Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

Alexander Payne

#72. When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Cheryl Strayed

#73. Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. In spite of his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.

Paulo Coelho

#74. A samurai never worries about losing his life. He worries about losing his honour. Being shamed is far worse than losing your life. A samurai is always ready to die - for his lord, for his honour. That's the samurai way

Lesley Downer

#75. There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.

Jean-Pierre Melville

#76. A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

Sandy Fussell

#77. You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

Al Madrigal

#78. Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

Orlando Bloom

#79. My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

Georges St-Pierre

#80. What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Chris Evans

#81. Artie: It's in here.
Jim: Let's check this [box] first, Artie.
Artie: Oh. [Finding a fake Sword of Kuniyoshi] Phony! How do you like that? Phony!
Jim: Artie ... so are our bonds.
Artie: Oh. You can't trust anybody these days.
Wild Wild West (TV) Season 3
Night of the Samurai

Wild Wild West TV

#82. I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

Yvon Chouinard

#83. The uncomfort zone is very important for us ... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

Lyoto Machida

#84. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,

Walter Isaacson

#85. I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Lester Cole

#86. A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Stan Sakai

#87. And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him.

What samurai could hope for more?

Takashi Matsuoka

#88. Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Lucy Liu

#89. Kill Bill is one of my favorite movies. It has this gritty feeling to it, and it's got a little bit of everything - a little bit of western, a little bit of samurai, and a lot of this very cinematic violence that I personally think is very entertaining.

Tove Styrke

#90. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.
his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#91. It was pretty late and the streets were quiet so she was almost sure no one had seen her drag the soul eater into the alley ... where she cut his head off with a samurai sword. God, she loved her life.

Samantha Young

#92. I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

Quentin Tarantino

#93. We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

Alex Majoli

#94. Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.

Enson Inoue

#95. Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

Tsukahara Bokuden

#96. I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn't work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have been over at minute 32.

Helen DeWitt

#97. I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#98. THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#99. A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#100. The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

Morihei Ueshiba