Quotes About Origami

#1. When everything went wrong at once, it felt like folding origami in a hurricane.

Lola Dodge

#2. 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

#3. My throat tightened when I noticed a small tattoo of an origami rose on his upper arm. . .
"Hey, Lenzi," he whispered, barely louder than the surf.
"Rose," I said as our lips met. "My name is Rose.

Mary Lindsey

#4. Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.'
'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something?

Kresley Cole

#5. Let fear defeat you not.

- Origami Yoda

Tom Angleberger

#6. I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

Ani DiFranco

#7. I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.

Ayelet Waldman

#8. You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.

Michael Scofield

#9. Sometimes, she worries about her mother, then she hardens her heart and thinks maybe the whole thing will be good for her. Shake her up a little. Which is what she needs. After Dad left, she just folded up into herself like an origami bird thrown into a fire. There

Neal Stephenson

#10. Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

Cassandra Clare

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

Alex Beecroft

#12. After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. I knew where Rose was - the peculiar crinkling of space on space into dimensions that fold like origami and blossom like strange orchids, and which would mark the last good time before the eventual end of everything

Neil Gaiman

#14. She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

Lauren Beukes

#15. I finally figured out how to read origami directions.

Zooey Deschanel

#16. Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Linda Barnes

#17. 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

#18. Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

Rachel Caine

#19. One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

Stewart Brand

#20. I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.

Roz Chast

#21. Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.

Christopher Barzak

#22. Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She'd waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. - from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE

Eric Beeny

#23. I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.

Jon Cryer

#24. I have more folds than an origami convention.

Roscoe Arbuckle

#25. The feelings flattened and folded and turned into something else, like emotional origami.

Louise Penny

#26. He framed my face now, and I met his stare in the dark of the car. "I think you're beautiful." My heart folded like an origami swan.

Jenny B. Jones

#27. I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

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

Lisa Mantchev

#29. Much of the Kama Sutra is like origami; I don't quite understand all the bending that needs to happen.

Erica Goros

#30. An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

J.G. Ballard

#31. Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Gregory Petsko

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

Susan Stinson

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

Alejandro Colliard

#34. Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

Feist

#35. I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I ... wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. The Force- always may it be with you.

Tom Angleberger

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

Tor Udall

#38. 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