Laid

Famous quotes containing the word laid:

    “Well said—that was laid on with a trowel.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Were I laid on Greenland’s Coast,
    And in my Arms embrac’d my Lass;
    Warm amidst eternal Frost,
    Too soon the Half Year’s Night would pass.”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    “For although memories, of a season, for example,
    Melt into a single snapshot, one cannot guard, treasure
    That stalled moment. It too is flowing, fleeting;
    It is a picture of flowing, scenery, though living, mortal,
    Over which an abstract action is laid out in blunt,
    Harsh strokes.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)