Folded Paper Quotes

#1. Moist made a mental note: envelopes with a stamp already on, and a sheet of folded paper inside them: Instant Letter Kit, Just Add Ink! That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I ripped his spine straight out from him and watched as Raz folded into himself like crumpled paper.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#3. You Americans so quiet because you Americans don't know anything for real. You know your gas prices, you know your baseball numbers but do you know that no piece of paper can be folded more than seven times?

Alison Espach

#4. Shit, man, if you see a dog scratching at the dirt trying to dig something up, walk away real fast, he said, then pulled a little square of paper from his pocket and swallowed whatever was folded inside.

Cole Alpaugh

#5. Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this?

Terry Pratchett

#6. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves (William Penn)- It was painfully true. I ended up hurting far more than anyone else whenever I allowed jealousy to infect me.

Gillibran Brown

#7. My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if your kids hit it big, they better make it up to you for those years. She's gotten her sacrifices back with interest.

Sean Combs

#8. I've got an hour before I need to be back at the station. I'll have fucked you three different ways by then.

Tessa Bailey

#9. I'll see the color of your money, my lord."
My lord folded the paper. He was still smiling. "It would disappoint you, my friend. It is just the same colour as everyone else's.

Georgette Heyer

#10. Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld.

Anthony Doerr

#11. His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Marcel Proust

#12. The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

William Walker Atkinson

#13. I had one elegantly folded cookie - a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

Lorrie Moore

#14. Loneliness cannot be reassured by proportion. Even friendship would have seemed to Pritchard a feast behind a pane of glass; even the smallest charity would have wet his lip, and left him wanting.

Eleanor Catton

#15. Sometimes I imagine we're all like paper stars, folded up and gathered together, each of us convinced that we are glittering and celestial, each of us bent into a shape so we believe we're something we're not.

Katherine Ewell

#16. Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

Federica Montseny

#17. Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable.

Susan Cain

#18. I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Anthony Quinn

#19. I'm folding my emotions like a piece of paper - a tiny square, into a tiny square, into a tiny square. When they're folded up enough I can leave them in a corner of my mind somewhere, to be forgotten.

Tarryn Fisher

#20. I folded the restraining order into a paper airplane and sailed it over to Julie without even interrupting my narrative. She caught, unfolded, and read it while mouthing something that looked suspiciously like ducking mother truckers, but I'm not very good at lip reading.

Larry Correia

#21. You're only as young as the woman you feel.

Groucho Marx

#22. With due respect, Truck-off.

Vikrmn

#23. I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson

#24. The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

Milton Glaser

#25. something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable, just as a piece of paper can only be folded so many times before it cannot be folded any more. While

Krystal Sutherland

#26. I'm coming out with a wine ... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

NeNe Leakes

#27. I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Joanna Southcott

#29. When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.

Susan Minot

#30. It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.

Bryant McGill

#31. She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they could float on the air for a few moments. Nothing more.

Marie Rutkoski

#32. Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.

Anne Carson