Origami Master Quotes

#1. The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back.

Gordie Howe

#2. Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves.

Cherie Blair

#3. She once watched a documentary and learned that the brain was 2 percent of a human's body weight, and it was a testament to the neck and the spinal cord that it managed to hold the whole thing upright.

Tracy Ewens

#4. For someone named Alice, you're really not all that up on your Wonderland trivia.

Elle Lothlorien

#5. America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

Jay Severin

#6. Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.

Fredrik Backman

#7. I got hard and he was there and the next thing I knew he was on his knees. I mean, I was going to step away, but he licked me.

Anne Tenino

#8. 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

#9. No whining. No complaining. No excuses.

Angela Duckworth

#10. He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

Malcolm X

#11. The world rests upon the poor . . . .

Joseph Conrad

#12. I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

Harry Carey Jr.

#13. Them. Many times people will describe places as not being "kid-friendly." That's enough for me. Whenever I hear that a restaurant is "not kid-friendly," I always think, "That place must be awesome! Let's get a sitter.

Jim Gaffigan

#14. What is the meaning of Resurrection? ... is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?

Ched Myers

#15. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

William Faulkner