#laid

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#down #i #intend #laid #laughter

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do. ↗

— Richard Marx

#batch #ever #i #laid #myself

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#exaggerated #laid #like #men #mind

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#consequence #decade #during #firm #first

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#i #jane #laid #rest #roe

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. ↗

— Moby

#getting #i #i am #laid #lot

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#actively #back #being #could #door