Lays Quotes - Page 10

• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Visionaries

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

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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 cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Chocolate, Scrapbooking

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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 children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Wife, Stupidity

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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• Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

  Sydney Smith

  Together, Done, Dean

  On a proposal to surround St Paul's with a wooden pavement, in H. Pearson 'The Smith of Smiths' (1934) ch. 10, p. 237

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• And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Areas

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• I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

  Bruce Springsteen

  School, Trying, Way

  "Glastonbury 2009: Bruce Springsteen". Interview with Steve Lamacq, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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• The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Success, Eggs, Laziness

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• On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspiring, Lying, Victory

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Father

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

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• I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

  Jonathan Swift

  Good Morning, Good Day, Greatness

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• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Thinking, Years

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• In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

  John Millington Synge

  Pain, War, Wind

  John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

  William Howard Taft

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Mr. Capone". Book by Robert J. Schoenberg, 1992.

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• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Running

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• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Crow, May

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau”

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• I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

  William Tyndale

  Mother, Truth, Eye

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.20

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• In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

  Tom Vilsack

  Keys, Years, Office

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Change, Unique, Personality

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• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Army, Soldier

  Letter to New York Legislature, 26 June 1775

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• This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Ideas, Secret, Want

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