Rachel Platten

I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

American Musician

J. R. R. Tolkien

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

English Novelist

Algernon Blackwood

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

English Writer

Rob Manuel

Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.

Businessman

P. J. O'Rourke

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

American Comedian

Fei-Fei Li

Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.

Chinese Scientist

Taylor Lautner

In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

American Actor

Laurel Clark

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

American Astronaut

Tiffany Darwish

I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.

Ratan Tata

What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.

Indian Businessman

Used to describe the act of crushing something into smaller, wrinkled shape with hands.

Physical Action

Signifies actively ruining the original form of an object, often paper.

Active Destruction

Sometimes indicates a character's emotional state, such as anger or frustration.

Emotional Expression

Conveys an abrupt loss of strength or stability, often due to emotion or exhaustion.

Sudden Weakness

Implies a sudden and often surprising loss of composure or functionality.

Unexpected Collapse

Metaphorically describes someone emotionally giving up or breaking down.

Emotional Metaphor

Refers to a crease or wrinkle that persists, sometimes even after trying to smooth it out.

Lasting Change

Often associated with clothing to describe unwanted folds or lines.

Apparel Characteristics

Can highlight the quality of materials, with some fabrics prone to crumple easily.

Material Quality

 he wouldn't buy a newspaper from me ever but I was convinced I was going to him to buy a license plate protector and he's like well we don't need one I said but you've got two cars I'm nine years old like but you have two cars and they don't have license plate protectors and I said I know and I said and this car here's got one license plate that's all crumpled up and he said yes that's my

Let's raise kids to be...

 It's really thin and bendable, so it's easy to roll into a cylinder. I don't need to stretch the sheet at all, just bend it. This property where one shape can be transformed into another without stretching or crumpling, is called isometry. A mathematician would say that a flat sheet is isometric to a cylinder. But not all shapes are isometric.

Pizza physics (New...

 crumple up like tin foil, I see the red paint flake off and drift off into the air, I can see all of that, like it's happening in slow motion. In my memory, that experience takes ten seconds. But why? Why did that memory play back longer than the actual time it took? This is an interesting phenomenon

Slowing down time (in...

 theory says that on fantastically small scales there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them but even though the dimensions are hidden they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra

Is our universe the only...

 But string theory says that, on fantastically small scales, there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them. But even though the dimensions are hidden, they would have an impact on things that we can observe

Why is our universe...

 kind of like a little bar bet crumple it into a bowl then would you hold out your hand flat above it your hand flat as flat as you can as fast as you can I want to see you grab that bill it's pretty quick so what if we escalated

Hand vs. Eye PIPE Brain...

 He soon came to a cramped cottage, with a woman crumpled outside. Filled with pity, the scholar implored the woman to share her sorrow. She explained that her mother had just died— but no one would help her with the burial.

The Japanese folktale of...

 technologies in computer science. Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over,

How we teach computers...

 bumped into the bigger Eurasian Plate, and the crust crumpled, creating huge uplift. Mountain Everest lies at the heart of this action, on the edge of the Indian-Eurasian collision zone.

Why is Mount Everest so...

 raise a tankard of rum and victory I'm going along by these crumpled down ruins this is awesome hit right here I get my big shovel out dig a nice plug drop down

Crumple