Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum. — Bob Dylan
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always… — Haruki Murakami
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride,… — Charles Dickens
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid… — Quentin Crisp
If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?"… — Richelle Mead
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in… — Thomas Paine
Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of… — Greg Behrendt
I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep. — Woody Allen
To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it?… — A A Milne
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. — Dorothy Parker
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate… — John Irving
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. — William Shakespeare
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray… — Tonya Hurley
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have… — John Taylor Gatto
Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead. — Tom Robbins
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath — Michelle Sagara
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London

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