They Lay Quotes
48 quotes by 47 authors
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I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking…
— Margaret Sanger
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It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
— Claudia Schiffer
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Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them.…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming.
— Mark Buehrle
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals,…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had…
— David Selby
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned…
— Mervyn Peake
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Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of…
— Daniel James Brown
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A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
— Will Rogers
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The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy…
— David Ogilvy
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When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and…
— Steven Pinker
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When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the…
— Amy Sedaris
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I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly…
— Charlie Sheen
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
— Cormac McCarthy
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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
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My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Who Wrote These They Lay Quotes
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