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Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“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.”

Records Proud Achievement Court Titles Tennis Clay Singles Wimbledon

Author:Chris Evert

“I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?”

“The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.”

I Can Beautiful Shooting Fishing Clay Countryside Pigeons Beautiful Places English Countryside

Author:Guy Ritchie

“But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.”

Men Writing Mind Book Certain Taken He Man Materials Masters Propaganda Bombs Throwing Mastery Clay Writing A Book Explosives Semblance

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.”

Light Color Photography Stones Excellence Paint Photographer Woods Mediums Painter Metals Clay Sculptors

Book:Photographic seeing

Source: Photographic seeing

“Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew.”

Heart Soul Fate Security Events Building Broken Expectations Stones Faults Glasses Colour Thrown Wounded His Love Bricks Clay Mold Cement

Author:Faraaz Kazi

“It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.”

Hard Grass Clay

Author:Marat Safin

“You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.”

Hands Lying Surrender Clay Potters Mold

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.”

Writing Clay Tablets

Author:Randy Newman

“Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.”

Writing Wells Country America Feet Usa Fraud United States Of America Clay Hypocrite Counting Warts Expressing Love Underdeveloped Countries

Author:Saul Bellow

“Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.”

“If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?”

Ifs Men Matter Form Spirit Suffering Dies Force Changed Paid Guests Multitudes Royal Clay Mute Annihilation Forces Of Nature Tenements

Book:The Credo of the Commoner

Source: The Credo of the Commoner

“The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.”

Known Childhood Hero Clay

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.”

Past Pure Experience Legends Mud Clay

Author:Bernard Malamud

“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?”

Wonder Failing Feet Gold Intelligent Deception Impulse Destructive Idols Clay Cliche Venice

Author:Mary McCarthy

“The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.”

Light One Thing Media Stones Clay Alphabet Papyrus

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”

Strong Roots Worms Clay Timber Not Strong Strong Roots

Book:The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

“You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.”

Knows Growing Up Growing Taught Rain Court Weather Tennis Clay Sweden

Author:Bjorn Borg

“I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.”

Knows Three Shooting Shells Clay Sportsman

Author:Joe Manchin

“I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.”

Hands Process Clay Movie Making

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“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 you to do that.”

People Real Play Character Able Together Fit Permit Twists Clay

Author: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 of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Happens Fronts Crime Criminals Things Happen Zero Clay Participants Horrific Passivity Passivity Is Less Than Zero

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.”

Way Writing Kind Two Novel Building Add Block Sculpture Chips Clay Marble

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“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 general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].”

Way Doe Two Earth Science Water Rocks Pure Stones Clay Two Ways Coherence

Book:Avicennae De Congelatione Et Conglutinatione Lapidum

Source: Avicennae De Congelatione Et Conglutinatione Lapidum

“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 by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.”

Knows Wells Christian Together Church Fire Blood Tears Pure Hatred Persecution Clay Statues Marble Hardened

Author:Virchand Gandhi

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