quotes about Clay
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
-- Adrienne Rich -
If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
-- Anne BronteSource : Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
-- Anne Lamott -
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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I dream in fire but work in clay.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2018). “The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories”, p.369, Oxford University Press
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When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.
-- Artie LangeSource : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.
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Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.
-- Barbara Chase-Riboud -
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
-- Bernard MalamudSource : 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
-- Bernard Malamud -
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
-- Bonnie Wright -
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
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The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
-- Bruce Coville -
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
-- Bruce Lee -
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do . . . there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.
-- Charles Simonds -
My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
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Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.
-- Chris Evert -
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.
-- David Byrne -
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
-- David Levithan -
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
-- David Viscott -
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Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!
-- Edmund Vance Cooke -
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.
-- Eric Hoffer -
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
-- Eva Zeisel -
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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, Â plaster or clay.
-- Eva Zeisel -
Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.
-- Floyd Patterson -
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
-- Francis Chan -
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
-- George Pelecanos -
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Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
-- George SewellSource : George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.
-- Greg Jackson -
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
-- Hugh Elliot -
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
-- James A. Baldwin -
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.
-- James Alexander Thom -
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.
-- James Weldon JohnsonSource : James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.17, Penguin
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You don't need to watch out for me, Clay." But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away. I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder?
-- Jay Asher -
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Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing
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When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.
-- Jen HatmakerSource : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group
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There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.
-- Jessica StockholderSource : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.
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In the modern game, you’re a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist ... or you’re Roger Federer.
-- Jimmy Connors -
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I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.
-- Joe Fafard -
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.
-- Joe Fafard -
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
-- Joe Manchin -
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
-- John Millington SyngeSource : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions
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It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
-- John Oliver -
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
-- Jorge Luis BorgesSource : "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.
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My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.
-- Judith KelmanSource : Judith Kelman (2005). “Where Shadows Fall”, Jove
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I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
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Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
-- Kelley Armstrong -
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
-- Lisa SeeSource : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.114, A&C Black
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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
-- Marat Safin -
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If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.
-- Marie Corelli -
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.
-- Neil Gaiman -
If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.
-- Penn Jillette -
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
-- Peter Greenaway -
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We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.
-- Pope Francis -
If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
-- Rafael Nadal -
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis -
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…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.
-- Richard Linklater -
We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
-- Rick Yancey -
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
-- Robert BreaultSource : "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
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Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
-- Shailene Woodley -
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If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
-- Sonny Liston -
To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!
-- Thomas ChattertonSource : Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.5
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
-- Walt Disney -
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Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
-- Wilfred Owen -
We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.
-- Jason GraaeSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.
-- Kirsten LeporeSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.
-- Ross W. Greene -
As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.
-- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden -
Since your time is your main involvement here - I mean, the clay doesn't cost very much. Even the glaze and the firing doesn't cost a great deal. But your time is the cost, and if you can keep your time to a minimum and still come out with the results you want, that means the pots can be sold for an economic price.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
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We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
When Bernard [Leach] wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
-- Zac Brown -
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I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
-- Owsley StanleySource : Source: medium.com
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The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
-- E.S. Russell -
I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.
-- Jim ShepardSource : Source: therumpus.net