Origami Paper Quotes & Sayings

I'd take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew - Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie - all bail out successfully from F-Fox and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future. — Kate Atkinson

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart. — Charles Caleb Colton

Anything that causes you to change who you are just to fit in is not good for you. — Tiffany L. Jackson

Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami — Alejandro Colliard

I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman. — Dolly Parton

My political giving has merely followed my relationships. — David Jolly

Can you miss a person you've never known?" There — Jodi Picoult

Roppongi is an interzone, the land of gaijin bars, always up late. I'm waiting at a pedestrian crossing when I see her. She's probably Australian, young and quite serviceably beautiful. She wears very expensive, very sheer black undergarments, and little else, save for some black outer layer - equally sheer, skintight, and micro-short - and some gold and diamonds to give potential clients the right idea. She steps past me, into four lanes of traffic, conversing on her phone in urgent Japanese. Traffic halts obediently for this triumphantly jaywalking gaijin in her black suede spikes. I watch her make the opposite curb, the brain-cancer deflector on her slender little phone swaying in counterpoint to her hips. When the light changes, I cross, and watch her high-five a bouncer who looks like Oddjob in a Paul Smith suit, his skinny lip beard razored with micrometer precision. There's a flash of white as their palms meet. Folded paper. Junkie origami. — William Gibson

Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels. — Tor Udall

Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed
most of them would be inIsrael — David

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson

Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square. — Tor Udall

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. — Tom Waits

He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple. — Alex Beecroft

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on. — Aleksandar Hemon

Her spine was the crease on a piece of paper, her bones no more than diagonal folds on a bit of origami — Lisa Mantchev

Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy. — Robert James Waller

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind ... From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate. — Georges Bataille

Sometimes, if not most of the time, you find out who you are by figuring out who and what you are not. — Kelly Cutrone

When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. — Cassandra Clare

A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies. — Tor Udall