I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

- Abraham Lincoln

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

- Bill Clegg

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.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

- Erika Eleniak

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

- Gail Sheehy

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

- John Burroughs

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

- John Oliver

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.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Matthew McConaughey

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

- Marat Safin

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.

- Peter Carey

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

- Rafael Nadal

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

- Stephen Daldry