Lap Quotes

390 quotes by 337 authors

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern
...every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great plops into your lap, that's how it was with "Hotel California"..… — Don Felder
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly… — Ambrose Bierce
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in… — William Gurnall
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished… — Robert Musil
You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was… — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you canâ€™t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might… — Spike Lee
It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to… — Kyle Busch
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may… — Abraham Lincoln
You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each… — Jack LaLanne
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton
I keep chicks in my lap, throwing me head fakes! — Fabolous
One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and… — David Platt
The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is. — Murray Walker
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you… — Bruce Nauman
We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast… — Valentino Rossi
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A… — Michael Dirda

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