Ernest Cline

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.

American Novelist

Frank Gehry

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

American Architect

Eliezer Yudkowsky

In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

American Writer

Kevin Kwan

As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

Singaporean Novelist

Keith Allen

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

Welsh Actor

Corrugated materials like cardboard are chosen for strength and durability in packaging.

Material Strength

'Corrugated' often suggests a rugged, industrial aesthetic, commonly found in architecture.

Industrial Look

Corrugated surfaces can help absorb sound, used in certain acoustic applications.

Sound Absorption

When 'corrugated' describes landscapes, it depicts them as having wavy, uneven surfaces.

Natural Landscapes

In art or literature, 'corrugated' can add a sense of motion or edginess to a depiction.

Artistic Impression

Using 'corrugated' for describing objects or scenes suggests dynamic movement or transformation.

Dynamic Description

 to do every day is he wanted to go visit. You know, he never quite made it to all of them every day, but he wanted to visit all 156 prisoners. And I would lift him, and he would put his fingers through. Or if they were dark cells, it was like iron corrugated, and he would put his fingers through. And most of the prisoners said that he was

Karen Tse: How to stop...

 fascinated by this experience where objects appear to have this inner life. The dervishes is the name for a musical instrument. It has 14 large spinning sort of wing-like arms. And each arm has a corrugated plastic tube on it. And the tubes are of different diameters,

Sound Meets Sculpture...

 when I photographed them in the microscope. We're going to take a detour and zoom in on the heart muscle now. And the heart muscle has this curious structure that's kind of like corrugated cardboard. That's what allows the heart to expand and contract as it's beating.

Visualizing hidden...

 she faced a daunting challenge of what's next. She knew she had to start her own business to survive. And to help her mother, who had tried so hard to keep her in school by selling her only assets, a stack of corrugated iron sheets she had been saving

How repaying loans with...

 eight-foot tall bamboo, string or rope, nails or screw and a skinning material. Could be corrugated metal, a fabric or plastic. And these materials come together and aggregate. It's like a kit of parts. And it's used all the way from a small tent,

The architectural wonder...

 when they were living in a -- literally a three-walled lean-to with a corrugated iron roof. After one harvest, they had increased their income enough to buy a second system to do their full quarter-acre. A couple of years later, I meet them.

Jacqueline Novogratz:...

 about what society expects from each of us but old enough to be aware of what's going on around you. We lived in a one-bedroom house, all five of us. Our house was amongst clusters of houses made mostly of wood and corrugated metal sheets.

The gender-fluid history...

 And skin at the other end also represents the floor. I did this as an experiment of casting the shadow. So this is a corrugated box and its shadow. Then the second one -- the moment you bring any invisible into the visible world

Alwar Balasubramaniam:...

 And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff,

Frank Gehry: Nice...

 It's virgin material, it's made from chlorine bleaching chemicals, and they said, use an unbleached bag, no chemicals. It's made from recycled content, mostly recycled shipping corrugated boxes.