Clay Quotes - Page 13

• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Play, Cups

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• The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

  Bruce Coville

  Stories, Firsts

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• Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Careers, Ordinary

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.109, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

  John Perry Barlow

  Change, People, Firsts

  "The Economy of Ideas" by John Perry Barlow, www.wired.com. March 01, 1994.

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• I am not that far away from becoming the No. 1 player in the world. I am only around 1,000 points away from achieving it. The key will be whether I can play better and more consistently on hard courts. If I continue to play well in the European clay court season and then take that form to the hardcourts in the United Sates, I could finish the year as the world No. 1.

  Juan Carlos Ferrero

  Player, Keys, Years

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• [In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

  Jimmy Connors

  Games, Roger, Modern

  "Connors on the men's final" by Jimmy Connors, news.bbc.co.uk. July 9, 2006.

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• Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

  Floyd Patterson

  Ku Klux Klan, People, Boxing

  "Let's not Pretend Ali was Gandhi". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 04, 2002.

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• No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's a disguise. It's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won't let them.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Children, Growing Up, Heart

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.285, Open Road Media

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• We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Queens, Eye, Airports

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Winter, Wind, Mind

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Science, House, Progress

  "Dombey and Son".

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• I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.

  Andy Roddick

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Imagination, Silence, Listening

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• If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.

  Penn Jillette

  Feelings, Time To Kill, Killing Yourself

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.32, Penguin

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• Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe
  What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away
  Planets are small as balls of clay
  Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight
  Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite
  Now stop and turn around and look
  As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took!
  So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star
  You better follow it, cause it's the R.

  Rakim

  Stars, Rap, Eye

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• Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Data, Bricks, Cried

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.289

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• Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.

  M. King Hubbert

  Science, Rocks, Two

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• I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Ouch, Paper, Suvs

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.60, Bantam

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• The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

  Billy Graham

  Faith, Religious, Sun

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• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

  William Sharp

  Women, Apples, Sea

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912). “Selected Writings”

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• 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

  Lying, Evil, Coffins

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• I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

  Paul Bowles

  Artist, Gertrude, Pot

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sun

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