Cooks Quote by Lin Yutang

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

— Sam Mendes

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a…

— Laura Kightlinger

Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The…

— Les Carlyon

How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

— Warsan Shire

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands…

— Nicholas Sparks

Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive,"…

— Julia Quinn

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

— Bruce Springsteen

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a…

— Neil Diamond

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have…

— Max Stirner

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without…

— Alyson Noel

I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who…

— Richard Simmons

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall…

— Winona Ryder

By the gift of God, WWE fell into my lap.

— Dana Brooke

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think…

— Jane Siberry