When the ball that was my heart ws broken,... laughter…

“When the bowl broke, that was my heart, laughter fell out.”

— Beatrice Wood

“Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as if…

— Kerrelyn Sparks

“It was a summer night: laughter fell softly: it was the sort of night that if you wasn't making love to a woman you…

— Samuel Selvon

“Her small bedroom was decorated with cheerfully embroidered samplers, which she had stitched herself, and a shelf containing an intricate shellwork tableau. In her…

— Janet Gleeson

In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was…

— Warren MacKenzie

Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who…

— Chelsea Handler

It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who…

— Warren MacKenzie

I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it…

— Warren MacKenzie

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was…

— Agatha Christie

In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing…

— Martin Sorrell

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.…

— Warren MacKenzie

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

— Brandon Sanderson

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or…

— Shauna Niequist

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

— James M. Cain