There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.
I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the stories that you all want to forget, but when you remember it, it hopefully makes you laugh.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself.
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.