We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. . . He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
Rowww!” Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn’t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. “Safe now. ” “You saved us from a metal ball,” Sadie said. “You never know,” Bast said. “It could’ve been hostile.
[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. . .
My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U. S. Open or French singles titles.
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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 a series, honestly.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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.
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.
