Lay Quotes

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I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to… — Dick York
In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the… — Richard E. Byrd
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. — Lorna Luft
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk… — Jayson Werth
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to… — Carl Rogers
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing… — Thomas Jefferson
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. — John Milton
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay… — Richard E. Blackwelder
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. — Samuel Garth
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,… — Amos Oz
Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will… — Margaret Fell
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in… — William Penn
Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was… — Paolo Bacigalupi
The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other.… — Claire Morgan
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of… — Percival Lowell
We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile. — Peter Habeler
We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows… — Daisy Ashford

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