Clay famous quotes

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

#History #Clay #Watches

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

#Strong #Thinking #Clay

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
-- Anne Bronte

#Clay #Stones

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

#Personality #Clay #Spirit

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Soul #Gold #Clay

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Data #Clay #Bricks

I dream in fire but work in clay.
-- Arthur Machen

#Dream #Fire #Clay

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 Lange

#Careers #Political #Clay

Time is clay. Go make something.
-- Barbara Bach

#Creativity #Clay

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.
-- Barbara Chase-Riboud

#Loneliness #Python #Clay

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

#Idols #Feet #Clay

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Past #Experience #Clay

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

#Time #Past #Clay

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Clay #Sun

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

#Drawing #Clay #Mold

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

#Zero #Thinking #Clay

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
-- Bruce Coville

#Firsts #Clay #Stories

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

#Clay #Building #Creation

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

#Art #Hands #Clay

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

#Mom #Clay #Looks

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

#Tennis #Achievement #Clay

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

#Emotional #Creative #Clay

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

#Beautiful #Sadness #Clay

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

#Clay #Stones #Lists

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

#Territory #Clay #Purpose

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

#Waiting #Temptation #Clay

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

#Power #Men #Clay

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
-- Eva Zeisel

#Hands #Bird #Clay

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood,  plaster or clay.
-- Eva Zeisel

#Hands #Clay #Woods

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.
-- Floyd Patterson

#Boxing #Black #Clay

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

#Punishment #Clay #Arrogant

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

#California #Humanity #Clay

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 Sewell

#Sleep #Inspire #Clay

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

#Ocean #Clay #Substance

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.
-- Greg Jackson

#Fighting #Devil #Clay

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

#Clay #Thumbprints

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

#Past #Pressure #Clay

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

#Past #Clay #Stories

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 Johnson

#Baby #Dust #Clay

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

#Voice #Trying #Clay

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 Say

#Agriculture #Understanding #Clay

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.
-- Jen Hatmaker

#Clay #Treasure #Jars

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 Stockholder

#Tree #Feelings #Clay

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

#Games #Roger #Clay

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

#Together #Clay #Woods

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

#Clay #Looks #Portraiture

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
-- Joe Manchin

#Clay #Three #Shells

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 Synge

#Strong #Roots #Clay

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

#Clay #Would Be #Roles

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 Borges

#Art #Clay #Raw Materials

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 Kelman

#Clay #May #My Sister

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

#Car #Waiting #Clay

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

#Father #Clay #Use

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Long #Clay #Enough

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
-- Lisa See

#Broken #Clay #Flawless

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
-- Marat Safin

#Clay #Grass

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

#Feet #Clay #Used

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

#Stuff #Bricks #Clay

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

#Feelings #Clay #Time To Kill

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
-- Peter Greenaway

#Names #Clay #Creation

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.
-- Pope Francis

#Treasure #Jars #Clay

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Beach #Ice #Clay

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
-- Randy Newman

#Writing #Tablets #Clay

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis

#Hero #Childhood #Clay

…[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

#Writing #Use #Clay

We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
-- Rick Yancey

#Clay #Masterpiece

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
-- Robert Breault

#Reality #Optimism #Clay

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
-- Shailene Woodley

#Hippie #Body #Clay

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
-- Sonny Liston

#Cassius #Clay #Murder

To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Water #Clay #Wealth

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 Chatterton

#Clay #Praise #Celebrate

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

#Pieces #Clay #Stuck

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
-- Wilfred Owen

#Sleep #Earth #Clay

Was it for this the clay grew tall?
-- Wilfred Owen

#Fighting #Clay #Grew

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

#Breathing #May #Clay

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 Graae

#Guy #Clay #Directors

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 Lepore

#Writing #Clay #Sitting

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

#Ideas #Clay #Mold

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.
-- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

#Dust #Clay #Waste

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

#Mean #Clay #Cost

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

#Years #Clay #Arriving

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

#Book #Personality #Clay

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

#Thinking #Challenges #Clay

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

#Stars #Class #Clay

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 Stanley

#Clay #Sculpture #Pieces

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

#Clay #Musician #Potters

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 Shepard

#Distance #Thinking #Clay