The Origami Forum

"I wished to fold the laws of nature, the dignity of life, and the expression of affection into my work." -- Master Akira Yoshizawa

My favourite quotations usually come from my lecturers.

'This is a very nice example of proof by induction. Maybe...too nice'

'I think the exam is simple enough, but simplicity is in the eye of the beholder' (this could be applied to origami too)

'And these are the issues that will have you losing your hair! What do you DO with bald people?!'

And my favourite: 'This will come up whatever subject you study. As long as it's maths.'

"i never wanted to kill / i'm not naturally evil / such things i do / just to make myself more attractive to you / have i failed?"
- morrissey

"if fashion is your trade / then when you're naked / i guess you must be unemployed yeah"
- jarvis cocker

"planet earth is blue / and there's nothing i can do"
- david bowie

"love is the law, love under will", "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
- aleister crowley

"man overcomes animals by words, himself by silence"
- unknown granny crossing the street

"You talkin' to me?"

Robert de Niro - Taxi Driver

"The clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -Mark Twain

"There were tons of people in front of me, so it could have been hard to see the painting. It's a good thing they were all Japanese. Lord only knows what we'll do when they start getting tall." My English teacher, talking about when she went to see the Mona Lisa

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't" -Scott Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"My mistake. I was perfect." -me

These are just a few that I remember offhand.

"It is very hard to get a man to see the truth of a proposition when his salary depends on it being false..." - Mark Twain.

"I'm a deeply religious non-believer. This is somwhat new kind of religion..." - Albert Einstein

"Wha, wha, che, wha, you can't just shoot everything down Chase. You're not me..." - Gregory House

"Here's a better anagram... Huge Ego, Sorry." Gregory House, on making anagrams of his name.

I have numerous quotes by Richard Dawkins but there are too many to include...

they say you get skinny from swimming; what's a whale doing wrong?

"If you are being hit by a stone, throw a bread back...."

"Moral entropy is often mistaken for nirvana"

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do twice"

"On my 16th birthday, I got a piece of paper from my parents.
I decided to design a Bahamut!"

-Origami Master Satoshi Kamiya

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former".

- Einstein

gute Leute, das ist was Sie haben müssen, gute Leute. (good people, that's what you need, good people) -Captain of Das Boot-

tyler clark "If you ask me about frosted Minnie wheats then i say the kid in me likes the frosted side, the adult in me likes the kid in me"

Well, I always say:

"Anything is possible, just have the right intelegence and experience to make it possible."

Seen on a T-shirt: "Everytime you download music, god kills a kitten"

War is a conflict that determines not who is right, but who is left.