Quotes by Clay 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 clay dust baby I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. Janet Fitch potters clay hands 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 clay guy directors 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 clay voice trying When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand. Jeffrey Katzenberg clay hands people 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 What is man but a mass of thawing clay? Henry David Thoreau clay body men 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 clay feelings tree 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 clay distance thinking [In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer... Jimmy Connors roger clay games 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 clay woods together 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 portraiture clay looks I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. Joe Manchin shells clay three And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too? John Boorman clay poor god 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 clay strong roots 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 roles would-be Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? John Milton clay darkness men 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 my-sister may When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth. Julie Taymor clay trying believe For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Julio Cortazar soap-bubbles clay stories «123456789»