Lap Quotes - Page 15

I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he admitted: 'I'm an idiot. I (still) smoke and do all those things I shouldn't do.

James Packer

Exercise, Band, Idiot

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

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Car

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I am pleased with the race and happy with fourth position. It was a real shame for the team that Felipe had an issue at the start. It was a lonely race but the final 20 laps were very tough. Sebastian was quicker than me, and closed up behind very fast, but the fight was really good fun. I know a few tricks that can really help to defend and they all worked today, and I am delighted to come out on top today.

Valtteri Bottas

Lonely, Fun, Real

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That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past.

Pastor Maldonado

Past, Race, Should Have

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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness, Shadow, Delight

Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.567

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It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

Louis Kronenberger

New York, Eye, Years

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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Alan Watts

Hands, Doe, Questions And Answers

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If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

Max Stirner

Fall, Ignorance, Men

"The False Principle of our Education". Book by Max Stirner, p. 23, 1842.

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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 hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

Michael Dirda

Summer, Mother, Reading

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I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars they have been giving me. We were up front, leading laps and showing how good this No. 22 Ford is. Once again today, my team showed they have my back and that will only make us better going forward.

Joey Logano

Team, Years, Long

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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

Anne Enright

Cat, Thinking, Cold

"The Gathering". Book by Anne Enright, May 3, 2007.

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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects

Boris Johnson

War, Dancing, People

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Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

Vince Neil

Kings, Hands, Left Hand

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Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

Melissa Walker

Inspirational, Funny, Wind Blowing

Melissa Walker (2012). “Unbreak My Heart”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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 chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

Les Carlyon

Sports, Hero, Passion

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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

Adrienne Rich

Mother, Heart, Son

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When I say "dogs", I'm talking about dogs, which are large, bounding, salivating animals, usually with bad breath. I am not talking about those little squeaky things you can hold on your lap and carry around. Zoologically speaking, these are not dogs at all; they are members of the pillow family.

Dave Barry

Funny, Dog, Humorous

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She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

Gene Kelly

Girl, Kids, College

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I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

Darren Criss

Fall, Goal, Ambitious

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I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Fernando Alonso

Race

Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.

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Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

Michelle Obama

Cheer, Memories, Dad

"Michelle Obama steals the show in Copenhagen" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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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

Girl, Dog, Cat

Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.221, Rutgers University Press

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...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".. a leased beach house in Malibu ... all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day probably in 1975 ... soaking wet ... thinking the world is a wonderful place to be... with an acoustic 12 string ... those chords just oozed out.

Don Felder

Music, Beach, Thinking

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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

Ambrose Bierce

Nature, Support, Important

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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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 is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

Robert Musil

Views, Hands, Soul

Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.153, University of Chicago Press

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