Paper Origami Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.

Tor Udall

#5. Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Alex Beecroft

#7. I want to be a person who has her eyes on what unites people, not what divides us.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#8. The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

Carl Rogers

#9. Time doesn't change anything; that is why we still worship asshole Arabs.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.

Tom Hanks

#11. Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami

Alejandro Colliard

#12. As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

Valerie Jarrett

#13. In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

Doug Aitken

#14. Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

Susan Stinson

#15. that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.

Steven F. Havill

#16. Her spine was the crease on a piece of paper, her bones no more than diagonal folds on a bit of origami

Lisa Mantchev

#17. Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.

Judi Dench

#18. When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.

Nicole Scherzinger