Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“It is yours,
And might we lay th’old proverb to your charge,
So like you, ‘tis the worse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Cackling hens do not lay eggs.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)