Ian Brown
Musician
"I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now."
Lays quotes
Lays
76 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"The past is not a package one can lay away."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us."
Ovid
Poet
"Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many."
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"You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow."
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"What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask."
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"How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers."
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"I lay down so hard, I got bed rash"
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"You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal ."
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"In loquaciousness lay insanity."
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"The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end."
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"I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead."
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"Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]"
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"Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great."
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"For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil."
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"His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed."
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"I wish I could lay down beside her and die too."
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