Laid Quotes

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead.

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

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

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

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

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.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.