Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes… — William Shakespeare
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you… — Charles Dickens
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my… — E E Cummings
You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and… — Simon Armitage
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying… — Khaled Hosseini
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of… — A. S. Byatt
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their… — Charles Dickens
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things… — Charles Bukowski
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing.… — Miranda July
She lay in the dark and knew everything. — Ian Mcewan
Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. — Ram Dass
I wish I could lay down beside her and die too. — John Adams
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on… — Ken Kesey
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… — Soren Kierkegaard
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds… — Cassandra Clare
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to… — Mary Oliver
I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers. — Miranda July
A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head… — Anne Rice
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for… — Ray Bradbury

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