Quotes by 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 You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other. Stella Benson clay idols feet I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly. Stephen Daldry clay eight hbo In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it. Stuart Dybek clay block writing Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free. Swami Vivekananda clay names ideas People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind. Terry Tempest Williams clay mind people I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay. Terry Tempest Williams clay writing discovery To get wealth and security by guile Thiruvalluvar clay wealth water Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay. Thomas a Kempis clay humble inspirational Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay. Thomas Campbell clay brother men 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 salvation praise Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod. Thomas Huxley bricks clay simple As ye of clay were cast by kind, Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden clay waste dust [The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. Tim Berners-Lee clay distance science Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind. Tom Selleck clay target mind Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. Vance Havner clay ice heart 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 stuck clay pieces 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 arriving clay years 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 clay personality book 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 challenges thinking «123456789»