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I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
— Brenda Lee
The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.
— Scott Westerfeld
Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it.
— Diana Gabaldon
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
— Charles Spurgeon
If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass!
— Hidekaz Himaruya
The sun was beginning to dry out the mud that Arthur lay in.
— Douglas Adams
I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom which I hope can provide unity and change.
— Michael Gove
Begging for More Kim Karr It was an instant attraction ... never intended to be more than a quick lay.
— Alessandra Torre
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.
— J.K. Rowling
I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.
— Richard K. Morgan
For Frito-Lay!" - Newel and Doren
— Brandon Mull
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
— John Dryden
As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.
— John Aubrey
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
— Baha'u'llah
At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.
— Leonard Gardner
In my free time, I love to lay in bed.
— Elizabeth Reaser
We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.
— Lakshmi Mittal
Investors don't like uncertainty.
— Kenneth Lay
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
— Robert Ardrey
While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead.
— Linda Lee Chaikin
But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
— Matthew McConaughey
I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
— Victor Borge
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
— George Santayana
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
— Mencius
It was then that I had a choice. I could cry and lay down and die, or I could use what I had learned from him to keep going and fully live.
— Aimee DuFresne
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
— Kenneth Lay
Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!
— William Shakespeare
It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.
— Colson Whitehead
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
— C.S. Lewis
The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection.
— Daphne Du Maurier
That even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.
— Justina Chen
Lay down your roots now,
let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson
let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
— Kenneth Lay
To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
— Jean Piaget
The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.
— Charlie Trotter
The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
When the electric dog finally stopped shocking him, Mack Sullivan lay outstretched on the cold concrete, pretending he was unable to move.
— Hugo Krait
Some days simply lay on you like stones.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
— Lord Chesterfield
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
— Donald Miller
My wealth lay in my ability to assist others, so that was my focus.
— Tina Louise Spalding
I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.
— Raymond E. Feist
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
— John B. S. Haldane
That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty
— David Guterson
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
— John Steinbeck
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.
— Philip Reeve
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
— Agatha Christie
You in one piece?" he asked. His pack lay open in the snow and he was cinching the last strap of a crampon onto his boot.
— Blake Crouch
I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see. — Ralph Hodgson
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see. — Ralph Hodgson
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
— Elbridge Gerry
He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.
— Mark Twain
It's the kind of music you want to listen to while you lay on the grass and get lost in the sky. It feels like sunshine breaking on your skin.
— Autumn Doughton
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.
— Neil Gaiman
"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".
— Gregory Palamas
I lay down on the shores of Pahlevi and wept
— Martin Stepek
You may lay to that.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
— Neil Gaiman
The Rock is going to lay the smacketh down on your candy ass!
— Dwayne Johnson
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
— George Takei
The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
— Franz Kafka
Lay claim to the nearness of God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb. 13.5 NIV).
— Max Lucado
It was disconcerting when she asked questions that no one answered. That way lay madness.
— K.F. Breene
Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together?
— C.S. Lewis
Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.
— Denise Richards
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
— Patrick DeWitt
All you cat lovers, remember all the millions of cats mewling through the world's rooms lay all their hopes and trust in you.
— William S. Burroughs
What degradation lay in being young.
— Daphne Du Maurier
So invite me in."
Now that way lay trouble. "What are you, a vampire that needs an invitation?"
"Worse. I'm a Sweet. — Avery Flynn
Now that way lay trouble. "What are you, a vampire that needs an invitation?"
"Worse. I'm a Sweet. — Avery Flynn
Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice
Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg
Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg
I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
— Edmund Phelps
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The victim lay on his face, as most people did after being stuck with ten swords.
— Maggie Stiefvater
What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.
— Anthony Burgess
When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
— Thomas Mann
It's funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth's old dance through the heavens.
— James Lee Burke
Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me
— Muhammad Ali
For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.
— Lacy Danes
Hale dropped down and lay in front of me, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. Don't worry, I've got you.
— Kiera Cass