Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming,… — John Green
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by… — Anchee Min
Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her… — Richelle Mead
Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave… — William Faulkner
But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human… — John Boyne
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of… — George R. R. Martin
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near… — Sylvia Plath
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. — William Shakespeare
Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons… — Robert E. Howard
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it… — Catherynne M. Valente
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view… — Patti Smith
I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the… — Ted Hughes
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to… — Catherynne M. Valente
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten,… — John Green
If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? — Cassandra Clare
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and… — Mark Twain
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about… — James Joyce
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and… — Nick Cave
The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. — John Green
That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And… — Arundhati Roy
Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me — Edna St. Vincent Millay
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life… — Iain Pears
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise. — Suzanne Collins

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