Top 100 Quotes About Clay
#1. Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.
Claes Oldenburg
#2. Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna fix my problems?"
"Why not?" Clay laughed. "Fixed mine.
Kele Moon
#3. Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands.
Jessica Kristie
#4. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.
Lao-Tzu
#5. I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.
Tui T. Sutherland
#6. Let's get outta here. Or I'm gonna put my mouth on you right here. I've been fantasizing 'bout tasting you since Thanksgiving." ~ Clay
Kele Moon
#7. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.
Alistair Begg
#8. You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.
Greg Jackson
#10. There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.
Andrew Dice Clay
#12. The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
Clay Shirky
#13. Amid the characteristics that make a successful entrepreneur, one stood out: juvenile delinquency.
Alexa Clay
#14. Divine blood purified our muddy race, bred heroes from dust and clay.
Madeline Miller
#15. Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ...
Clay Shirky
#16. What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.
Francis Quarles
#17. People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
Patti Smith
#18. If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
Bryan Clay
#19. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is.
C.S. Lewis
#20. 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.
Jill Wagner
#21. If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
Clay Shirky
#22. Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
Clay Aiken
#23. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.
Oscar Wilde
#24. [N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.
Clay Shirky
#25. I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.
Clay Aiken
#26. Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
Clay Aiken
#27. You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.
Robin LaFevers
#29. If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.
Marie Corelli
#30. Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [ ... ] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.
Clay Shirky
#31. Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
Clay Shirky
#32. My mate is really, really weird.
She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
She laughs and holds a large lump up to show it to me. Her mouth moves, and she makes enough noise to scare away a group of birds near the shore.
She is so, so strange.
Shay Savage
#33. 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.
Eric Hoffer
#34. Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.
Marissa Meyer
#35. In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique ... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.
Clay Guida
#36. You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.
Rick Yancey
#37. Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
#38. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#39. 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.
W. H. Auden
#40. I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#41. I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#42. Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
Elena Ferrante
#43. God gave us all gifts to serve, love, and give. What ones do you have? - Clay Taylor -
Gary Chapman
#45. Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.
Andrew Dice Clay
#46. Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
Natalie Angier
#47. For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend.
Jay Nixon
#48. Do me a favor, Princess. The next time someone says they're going to kill you, don't just let them. -page 244 of Winter
Marissa Meyer
#50. I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.
Clay Aiken
#51. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
Henry Clay
#52. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#53. The Facebook of China, however, is Renren, launched in 2005. (The Google of China is Baidu, and the Twitter of China is Sina Weibo.)
Clay Shirky
#54. Aspire to be more than your circumstances
Anissa Clay
#55. If it's a revolution it can't be predictable. And if it's predictable it can't be a revolution.
Clay Shirky
#56. A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#57. If Clay snarled and raged, he was a proper werewolf. If I did, I was a hysterical woman.
Kelley Armstrong
#58. Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
Clay Shirky
#59. 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.
William Butler Yeats
#61. The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
William Wordsworth
#62. Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. In April 1968, a test launch with an unmanned Apollo 6 capsule aboard suffered from a "pogo effect." Unnerved NASA engineers watched as their thirty-six-stories-tall rocket bounced across the pad for half a minute before finally achieving liftoff.
James Clay Moltz
#64. Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.
Clay Griffith
#65. 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.
Bernard Malamud
#66. When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream ...
William Butler Yeats
#67. 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?
William Jennings Bryan
#68. Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
Cathleen Schine
#70. A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
Clay Shirky
#71. The number of diet books available to the public correlates to obesity rates.
Clay A. Johnson
#72. 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
#74. The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
Henry Clay
#75. Life is like a clay it's in your hand.So make it whatever you want.
Saravanan
#76. Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#77. Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...
Virginia Woolf
#78. I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#79. I am your guard. I'm here to protect you and keep you out of trouble, and that's it.
Marissa Meyer
#80. 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
#81. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. Johnson
#82. Has any woman ever touched you?" she asked as she splayed her fingers over his thigh.
"No."
"Do you want a woman to touch you?"
"No."
She stilled, and Clay pushed himself up. He cradled her check in his palm. "I want you to touch me.
Lorraine Heath
#83. Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Clay Shirky
#84. You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.
Steven Erikson
#85. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay
#86. The Software You will have to buy Microsoft Office, which contains PowerPoint, or you can download the freeware OpenOffice, which contains Impress. Once you understand the basics of how to use these programs to create the book cover, you may prefer to use some other presentation software. Both
Jimmy Clay
#87. We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
Bryan Clay
#88. Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.
Omar Khayyam
#89. Instead of dying from the cold of winter, we find death in cholesterol.
Clay A. Johnson
#90. I called Clay from the SUV.
"How'd it go at the paper?" he asked.
"She called me perky."
"Ouch.
Kelley Armstrong
#91. Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
Henry Clay
#92. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
#93. Here you lie in the tremendous web. Others are about you, but they are whole - whole hearts and bodies. But all of you that lives is back there walking the desolate seas in evening winds. This thing here, this cold clay thing, is already dead.
Ray Bradbury
#94. It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
Bryan Clay
#95. What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don't despise any tiny minute of the day; each counts so much!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. 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
#98. We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.
Clay Shirky
#99. I made such an idol of my beautiful Osborne, and now it turns out he has feet of clay.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#100. Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
