Clay Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

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.

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.

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.

Time is clay; make something.

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

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.

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

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

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.

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the 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.

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

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

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.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.