Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. — Oscar Wilde
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though… — Robert Frost
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of… — Abigail Adams
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. — Stephen King
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills… — Charlotte Bronte
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight,… — Ernest Hemingway
Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly… — Diana Gabaldon
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. — Ian Mcewan
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not… — Hermann Hesse
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not… — Stevie Smith
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting… — Soren Kierkegaard
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble… — William Faulkner
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of… — Haruki Murakami
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour,… — Clive Barker
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. — Emily Dickinson
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;… — Virginia Woolf
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf

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