Everything I do is
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. Eva Zeisel
Plasters
Partition is after all
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry – held together with the plaster of fiction. Eamon de Valera
I always performed when
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. Franka Potente
Thomas Jefferson went through
Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint … Read more
Berlin is a skeleton
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, … Read more
When we believe that
When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God’s voice is … Read more
Among the heaps of
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish Charles Reznikoff
I was wearing corn
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. Cesar Romero
I have always hated
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it. Carolyn Wells
It is in fact
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. Camille Claudel