Lap Quotes

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.