Lay Quotes
2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors
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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think…
— Allen Ginsberg
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
— Matthew Simpson
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Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their…
— John Cage
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the…
— Georges Duhamel
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Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay…
— John Barth
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The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
— Paul Theroux
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
— Neil Diamond
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Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.…
— Carl Jung
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The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of…
— Kadmi Cohen
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I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by…
— Brenda Lee
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Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution,…
— David Petraeus
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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by…
— Michael Polanyi
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In my free time, I love to lay in bed.
— Elizabeth Reaser
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say…
— Asne Seierstad
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I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested…
— Juliet Stevenson
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Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?
— George Thorogood
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If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
— George C. Wallace
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Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and…
— James T. Walsh
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Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
— Edmund Vance Cooke
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What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the…
— Susan Faludi
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I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on…
— Jeremy Irons
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When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
— Gerhard Richter
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'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if someone hears an…
— Poemen
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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write…
— Walt Whitman
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