Top 592 Clay Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
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 think my game is very suited for clay. It brings out my strengths more so than my other surfaces.
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.
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.
The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.
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.
Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower than the angels.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
For a celebrity with image challenges, kids can be game-changers. It's no accident that Clay Aiken came out of the closet cuddling his newborn.
Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
In Madrid, the conditions are always better for me. It suits my game: fast clay, high altitude, the balls fly really well.
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.
On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.
If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.
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.
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.
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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.
I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.
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.
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.
With 'The Missing Picture,' we'd shot for a year and a half already when this idea of the clay figurine, the life that comes from the earth, came to me, and I changed everything.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
I grew up in rural Alabama, and some of my older family members used to eat red clay dirt. As a kid, I was introduced to it.
I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.
What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.
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.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
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.
He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
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 love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
I am sick and tired of Cassius Clay going around and saying he is the greatest and what a tremendous boxer he has been.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.
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.
