20 Pottery Quotes for You to Enjoy

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. Christopher Lee

Family Side Back Some Pottery Count Name Trace Cousin Came Italian Years Famous Rome Across Who Painted Original

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee. Jen Lancaster

Balance Strong Coffee Hurdles Once Laundry Spilling Plus Pottery Never Catalogs Over Stack Stairs Barn Flight Navigate Thin Basket

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre. Andre Leon Talley

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that. Christien Meindertsma

Invention Bone Though Pottery Had Developed Contains Course Been Discovered Forget Which China Next Inclined British Bones

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. Christopher Fowler

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For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places. Daniel Johnston

Work Time You College Those Steel Pottery Factories Longest Longest Time Go Afraid Places Working Keep Mill

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect. Debi Mazar

Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff. Emily V. Gordon

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I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet. Eva Herzigova

Love Me Relaxing Pottery Takes Another Very Planet

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself. Eva Zeisel

Myself Pottery Support Learned Been Began Craft Order Painter Designer

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. John Caudwell

Time School Job Say Pottery Part Part-Time Journalists Like Doing Off Left Just After Short-Lived Sweeping Floors Started

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges. Kameron Hurley

Life You Writing Sense Would Pottery Over Come Like Piece Make Edges Parts Stone Process Again Chipping Working Sculpture Many Novel Rough Away Things

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer. Lisa Frank

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When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true. Peggy Rathmann

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go. Rainn Wilson

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I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures. Steven Klein

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