They Lay Quotes

48 They Lay quotes by 47 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming. — Mark Buehrle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took… — Steven Wright
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the… — Nicholas Sparks
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,'… — James Salter
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone… — Ilona Andrews
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces… — Franz Kafka

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