Chiyo Quotes & Sayings

Present is living with your feet firmly grounded in reality, pale and uncertain as it may seem. Present is choosing to believe that your own life is worth investing deeply in, instead of waiting for some rare miracle or fairytale. Present means we understand that the here and now is sacred, sacramental, threaded through with divinity even in its plainness. Especially in its plainness. — Shauna Niequist

He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma. — Lucy Robinson

I actually have a little routine I do before every shoot. I put a face mask on before bed and make sure I go to sleep early. Then, I get up early and make myself breakfast and get in a workout. — Erin Heatherton

But for their cries,
The herons would be lost
Amidst the morning snow. — Chiyo Ni

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. — James Callaghan

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day. — Nicole Jordan

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within. — Chiyo Uno

All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness. — Chiyo Uno

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none. — Bruce Sterling

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things. — Arthur Golden

People say, "Now you've given up booze at least you can remember what you did last night." I say, "Yeah, nothing." - Frank Skinner — Jimmy Carr

The walls were made of white stone, topped with preening angels — Richard Raley

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

Still, I'm not convinced that you were right, Dai
that it's such a bad thing, a useless enterprise to reel and reel out my memory at night. Some part of me, the human part of me, is kept alive by this, I think. Like water flushing a wound, to prevent it from closing. I am a lucky one, like Chiyo says. I made a terrible mistake. In Gifu, in my raggedy clothes, I had an unreckonable power. I didn't know it at the time. But when I return to the stairwell now, I can feel them webbing around me: my choices, their infinite variety, spiraling out of my hands, my invisible thread. Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose. It's become my sanctuary here in Nowhere Mill. A threshold where I still exist. — Karen Russell