#samurai

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

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. ↗

— James Clavell

#samurai #samurai-bushido-seppuku #strength-of-mind #courage

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#war #warrior #art

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#samurai #manga

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

#business #cut #dying #get #head

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

#body #different #fighting #much #position

Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings ↗

— Eric Anderson

#humor

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

#samurai #sword #violent #humor

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen? ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#respect #samurai #forgiveness

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#manga #samurai #courage