The Clay Marble Quotes

#1. Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

Dwayne Andreas

#2. I can see her weighing her response, concentrating like a cliff diver studying the ebb and flow of the tide.
"Um, well... could you at least give me an idea?"
"Two weeks give or take a week or two.

Greg Logsted

#3. 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.

Jacques Barzun

#4. When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

Paul Auster

#5. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

Herman Cain

#6. I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Kendrick Lamar

#7. There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I don't want a girl, or a woman, or a supermodel. I want you.

Nicole Williams

#9. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

Virchand Gandhi

#10. Surely these victims of the sea ... had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

John Rousmaniere

#11. When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes." Genghis paused for a moment. "Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

Conn Iggulden

#12. I hate it when you do that," he said.
"What?"
A pause. "Put clothes on.

H.D. Gordon

#13. In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

John Lahr

#14. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

Karin Slaughter

#15. When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

Panda Bear

#16. I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like "BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH". That appeals to everybody.

Toby Turner

#17. If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Franz Grillparzer

#18. 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