The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.
To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I'll put on a clay mask to prepare.
I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.
Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.
When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.
Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.
And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Returning serve on clay is not easy because you don't always have a sure footing so you can't push off in the way that you would like.
Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
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.
I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.
The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
Normally I'm really looking forward to the clay court season.
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.
There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.
On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
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.
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.
All the music has been done before except for the 'Eve of Destruction' and the 'Born in the U.S.A.' You keep reshaping - llke it was putty or clay.
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.
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.
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
I think my game is very suited for clay. It brings out my strengths more so than my other surfaces.
Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
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.
On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.
When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'
I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
I feel like I can move well on the clay. So if I need to get into a longer rally, I can.
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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