Paper Origami Quotes & Sayings

Great French design is often about unexpected touches. — Candice Olson

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

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12. — Lionel Sosa

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. — Eric Hoffer

In order to complete any successful and streamlined qualification effort, a comprehensive plan should be developed which bridges the GEP/commissioning phases with the qualification phases of the project. — Robert A. Young

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles] — Michelle Moran

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

Only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be. — Hakim Bey

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did. — Robert Breault

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

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. — Ben Shapiro

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

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part. — Giordano Bruno

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

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

Because love is never in the past tense. — Scott D. Brillon

Turn on the news, and the majority of airtime is spent on accidents, corruption, murders, abuse. This focus on the negative tricks our brains into believing that this sorry ratio is reality, that most of life is negative. — Shawn Achor

At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied. — Karen Marie Moning

The children of God are His instruments on the earth. — Sunday Adelaja

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

It's hard to care when no one loves you. — Tupac Shakur