Origami Quotes

• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  Sadako Sasaki

  Life, Peace, Passion

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• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Philosophy, Law, Joy

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• She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

  Lauren Beukes

  Dream, Disappear

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

  Zooey Deschanel

  Long, Understanding, Enough

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Trying, Looks, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1526, Simon and Schuster

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

  Feist

  Style, Assuming, Whiplash

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I finally figured out how to read origami directions.

  Zooey Deschanel

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Degrees, Use

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• I have more folds than an origami convention.

  Roscoe Arbuckle

  Conventions, Folds

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• 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

  Song, Children, Kids

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• 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

  Love You, Want, Littles

  "Fictional character: Michael Scofield". "Prison Break: The Final Break", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• 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

  Tired, Sadness, Men

  Song: Origami, Album: Educated Guess

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• For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Book, Parent

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• 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

  Space, Light, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Susan Stinson

  Moon, Paper, Burroughs

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• 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

  Nursing, Past, Thinking

  "First Feed Birds, Then Procrastinate". Interview with Cara Buckley, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2009.

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

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Hobbies, Jason

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.117, Allison & Busby

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

  Linda Barnes

  Mean, Order, Personality

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Children, Pregnancy, Four

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• I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

  Adam Richman

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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