Devil Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat”

— Kevin Barry

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

— Laozi

Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all…

— Warren MacKenzie

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like…

— Robin McKinley

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

— Thomas Carlyle

In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple…

— Warren MacKenzie

We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired…

— Warren MacKenzie

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

— H. F. Ellis

“The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just…

— John Banville