Clay Quotes

325 quotes by 264 authors

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… — Peter Carey
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one… — Bret Easton Ellis
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In… — Avicenna
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… — Virchand Gandhi
If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now… — Peter Enns
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though… — Francis Chan
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because… — Francis Chan
Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold… — Steve Rasnic Tem
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… — Bonnie Wright
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… — Stephen Daldry
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the… — Charles Caleb Colton
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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints… — James Russell Lowell
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
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… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay… — George Sewell
I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a… — Philip Guston

Who Wrote These Clay Quotes

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