Elizabeth Gilbert

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

American Novelist

Lesley Manville

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.

English Actress

David Hepworth

There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who endured such inconveniences as the Depression and the Second World War were porcelain compared to, say, Amy Schumer.

British Journalist

Jeffree Star

I have porcelain skin and tattoos all over my body, so the sun can be my worst enemy. I also am trying to never age, which is why you can always find me hiding behind massive sunglasses or under an umbrella when the sun is out!

American Celebrity

Judith Miller

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

American Journalist

Linda Fiorentino

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

American Actress

Melanie Martinez

I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was so scared of them, I would try to turn their head away and would make my mom take them out of my room.

American Musician

Daniel Humm

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

Swiss Chef

Emily Dickinson

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

American Poet

Jeremiah Brent

I am a huge fan of porcelain in kitchens. It's an easy, interesting material.

Porcelain has a rich history, often seen in antiques and museums.

Historical Value

Porcelain is associated with high quality and is often more expensive.

High Quality

Porcelain is fragile; not suitable for activities that require durable materials.

Not for Rough Use

When used as an adjective, it specifically describes something made from porcelain.

Material Specific

Focuses on the aesthetic appeal of items due to the porcelain material.

Aesthetic Focus

Porcelain is used metaphorically to describe something beautiful and delicate.

Metaphorical Use

It may be used to imply fragility or vulnerability of a non-physical aspect.

Fragility Connotation

The term evokes a visual image of fairness, purity, or a flawless surface.

Visual Imagery

 tempered glass this makes it very hard and very resistant to blunt objects but when you fracture porcelain it creates a very very fine very hard point you're not hitting it with very much force but what force is there is exquisitely precise causing a fracture that propagates through the entire glass and

Shattering the...

 At that point, China still held a virtual monopoly on the world's tea trees, making tea one of three essential Chinese export goods, along with porcelain and silk. This gave China a great deal of power and economic influence as tea drinking spread around the world.

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 got the tools and he owes me a couple favors so hopefully he can help me and get these things open and get the Platinum out yeah this porcelain rod goes all the way through okay all right this metal tip that's where the Platinum is now we take that saw and cut a

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 to trade gold, porcelain, spices, and silks around the globe. But running this massive operation wasn’t cheap. In order to fund their expensive voyages, the company turned to private citizens– individuals who could invest money to support the trip

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 loving you means getting dirty bring on the grime I will leave this porcelain home behind I'm used to twice a day relationships but with you I'll take all the time and I know we live in different worlds and we're always really

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 helped by an extensive system of horse messengers and relay posts. Robust trade continued at sea, especially in blue-and-white porcelain, which combined white pottery from Mongol China with blue dye from Mongol Iran.

The rise and fall of the...

 My father is the son of a maid from whom he inherited an intense dark chocolate tone. He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents. The matriarch, my grandma, has a porcelain skin and cotton-like hair.

The beauty of human skin...

 cadaver bones, to try to get my feet moving the right way. And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth and all kinds of other things. But eventually, I started to look human again.

Ramona Pierson: An...

 It's not measured by a thin waistline, porcelain skin or slender hips. It runs much deeper than that. So what does indigenous beauty look like? Oh, it's fierce, defiant and proud.

Sasha Sarago: The...

 central love a porcelain crab combs the current with claws fringed with delicate hairs but all these filter feeders have one