Clay Quotations

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

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.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

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

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

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

We utilized his leg strength to kick it over the net because he had that ability, and that assured our defense would be in a situation where the offense would have to go 45 yards to score. Clay is more than capable of backing off a little and putting it into the net. We are working with him now on some things on where we want him to kick it. They want returns as part of the game for the excitement.

Until now I wasn't used to playing on hard courts, ... We don't have courts like this in Romania, we only have clay courts, and I don't know, this year I've started to play better and better on this kind of court, so I am feeling confident now and I am looking forward for the next matches and also for the US Open.

Whether (Tyco's) life as a short-seller's clay pigeon has been the driver or whether the company's own inability to make the case clearly enough has been the culprit, (Tyco) now is in a major league quandary,

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

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

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

We did clay art. We did chalk drawings.

The outfield here has large amount of clay content in the soil and as result it was slippery and too dangerous for the players.

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

Time is clay; make something.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Olivier and I had a great match in the Davis Cup on clay a few weeks ago, ... It's nice to have a rematch against him on indoor hard.

Most of the world knows him as the dad on Full House , but I know him as this funny, sick comedian. He and Andrew Dice Clay were the two dirty, hilarious comedians when I was growing up.

One parent asked me if we ever needed someone to pick up sticks. I said sure and they sent their son to help out around the farm. Then the apples were ready. Soon two more boys were there to help get the ladders out and pick the apples. Then something was ready in the garden and we decided to start canning and eventually decided to enter the Clay County Fair.

One night after a show he gave me a gift. When I opened up the bag, he had made out of clay and dried macaroni a model of the universe with the planets and everything. Then in the middle of the model was an action figure with my face on it. I was the center of his universe.

Morales is a kid that gets limited at bats but he picked up three hits and the big grand slam. Clay (Glover) hit the ball hard four times today and we need to find a way to get him in the lineup. We have three or four guys that are really (designated hitters), so we have to be able to get his bat out there on a daily basis.

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

One of the scouts from Arkansas A&M came to the game and gave Clay $10. He didn't give me any money, so I got mad. So I ended up going to Southern.

I believe working with clay will be my primary expression. But life is unpredictable. I find that fact exciting.

I beat the defending champion from last year and I think that today the conditions were tough for both of us, ... It was our first match on clay so the tennis was not that pretty. But I'm pretty happy with the win because I remember the Davis Cup from last year when it was two sets all and I lost 6-0 in the fifth set, so this one was payback time.

I am satisfied, I felt very well in spite of not having played on clay for a long time.

I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.

I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right.

I first came on board when Ed and Mike Clay founded the Millersville organization, and it has been a privilege to see it go from an experiment to where it is now.

I expected that we would be playing on clay. The Europeans tend to go for clay. The match is in April, which is the start of the red clay season, so it gives our players a chance to play on the same surface through the French Open.

I get them up and do things with water pistols, PVC piles with a hunk of clay or play dough in it to be arteriosclerosis and things like that,

He got it, man, ... Clay understands the music. I've been fortunate in my career. But it's a tough fight out there by yourself.

He (Gaudio) is a really good player, one of the best on clay and I'm very happy to win this match.

We talk about the physical properties of the clay as we form our bowls and the chemical changes that occur after heat is added during the firing stages. Students create their bowls by rolling clay out at their desks, then placing the clay over forms and molding them.

Greensboro, N.C., was an eye-opener. Of course, Clay and Fantasia came from Carolina. They're not as affected as New York and Los Angeles, where they watch too much VH1 and MTV and mimic that.

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

John Clay is among the best backs I've ever seen, and I saw Maurice Clarett play in high school. But those two guys could start for any team in the state.

I thought Clay delivered the ball well, and we know Brandon can run. The thing with quarterbacks and running backs is they're only as good as the guys in front of them.

I thought that really struck home, especially with the Clay family being there for the speech.

It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.

I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.

I think he's the most qualified, serious candidate Clay Shaw has ever faced.

It didn't swell up overnight like they say an ACL does, but we are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. He just got accepted to The Citadel and he's got a lot going for him right now, so I really hope everything works out OK because Clay is really our leader on the field.

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.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

I was out poking around about another job, and Clay come in.

We really wanted to play hard because of Clay after he got injured. And everybody really took it personal because he's the leader of our defense.

We have some items in the museum that were donated directly by Wolf's family, ... Even though he moved to Chicago, he still returned to Clay County to hunt and fish. We have Wolf's personal hunting rifle on display, as well as unpublished photographs and even Wolf's passport from when he toured Europe and the UK. Basically, we have the museum structured to tell Wolf's story -- from his beginnings in White Station until his death in 1976. It's a tribute to his life.

We're not backing into squat. We're going to Clay with the intent of beating them. I don't want anyone saying we backed into anything.

We could have done the Were-Rabbit in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional (stop-motion) techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression.

We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content. This test is easier than it sounds. Because clay minerals make up the bulk of sediment deposited today, we are saying that it should be largely absent in ancient rocks. And this is just what one finds.

We did the same thing to them. We went to (John Paxson) and 'Pax' was covered and Jimmy Dolan made the game-winner. It goes both ways. Doc Rivers hit that shot but I'll trade Doc Rivers for Jimmy Dolan and still go with Dwight Clay and that buzzer shot.

We don't have a lot to hang our hat on. We're economically deprived. Hey, I'm from Clay County. I know what basketball means here.

We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

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 can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

We used metal sets (as a background). They would use magnets to move the pieces (clouds, trees, clay animals, etc.) for each shot.

This will be a completely different game. Henry Clay runs a more spread offense. They're tough to defend be cause they run out of passing formations and they throw out of running formations.

With any soil contamination - whether it's sand like we have here or soil or clay - testing needs to be done thoroughly to ensure there is no health threat to the people who live here and use this beach.

This will be the hardest battle Clay Shaw has ever faced. This is the most vulnerable seat in the state and one of the most vulnerable in the country.

The physio thinks its due to the change from hard courts to clay and maybe the change in climate so I'll make sure I get my legs massaged before my next match.

Without doubt, this was my best match on clay and it needed to be. I could have easily lost today.

Fame: putting someone on a pedestal so you can see his clay feet

Water flows through the ground naturally. At every dam site around the world, seepage occurs. The water tends to move through gravel or clay and sand.

This year has been very, very difficult but the way that I have been feeling this week is the best I've felt since the clay court season in 2004,

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.

You have to remember, we're talking about 1861 or 1862. Abraham Lincoln was president. Local potters had to make these items from clay found in the area. We have some pieces with the fingerprints of the potters still on them.

Both of the guys we threw today pitched great. Clay pretty much took control and just had one jam in the first game but the double play that we turned was not an easy on to make.

Brett could play, but there's no sense in risking it. This gives Clay and Riley a chance to do some things.

I've been doing enough work -- throwing and conditioning -- to get ready for what I'm going to do the next eight to 10 days, enough to train with Mac and the intensity he trains with. I broke a cleat off on this hard, red clay here in Florida, so that must mean I'm close to being ready.

The rookie class of 2005 may be the best group of rookies we've ever seen. Whether they go on to win Pro Cup titles like Clay and Shane, or win at higher levels like Vickers and Wood, remains to be seen, but they've got the potential to become household names in the racing world.

The throaty V-8 growl that William Clay Ford Jr. claims he likes. That was my last major contribution.

The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

Reality TV doesn't have any syndication value -- it doesn't repeat well. Are you going to watch 'American Idol' again once you know that Clay or Ruben won?

Some say that grass is for cows. I guess clay is for making bricks.

Definitely it's going to be very exciting and I'm very happy I've played lots of matches on clay so at the moment I'm feeling very confident. I'm really looking forward to the first match. I really enjoy the competition. Playing matches now, I feel much more relaxed on court and I think much clearer and that helps me a lot.

A shooting background I have in my life is a sports shooting, shooting clay targets, and field shooting. I'm also a firearms safety instructor.

The brain is big in every sport, ... Andre has become a swollen brain out there. He doesn't go for winners on every ball. That's what Andy is striving to do. That's what we are striving for. He's like a piece of clay right now. I don't think it's good thing at any sport if you're too good at 21 or it's too easy. You have to keep working and keep improving and he can do that. He's 21 and he's getting better.

A wonderful Combination :: A wooden stick and a pair of HUGS, can turn a raw Clay child in to COFFEE MUGS

That's what you're looking for, to stop the momentum. Clay stopped it for us. He did an incredible job.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

This is another example of excellent police work coupled with excellent medical intervention and evidence. It sends a powerful message to those who injure a child ? any child ? that Clay County will hold you accountable for your actions.

The Whigs, on their part, had held their first national convention in December, 1831, and nominated Henry Clay to dispute the succession.

This is a big day for West Point and we hope that everyone will come out for the dedication of the Howlin' Wolf Museum, ... The legacy of Howlin' Wolf is a major part of the history of Clay County. The opening of the museum will ensure that this legacy lives on for future generations to discover.

Always the best preparation for playing at Wimbledon is playing on the clay and getting fit. That really does help your grass court game.

There was no evidence that they had a relationship or that (Love) treated Clay any different from other contractors. You're not charged to find whether (the authority) could be run better, but whether there was any criminal action by Love.