Lap Quotes - Page 2

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

Neil Strauss

Life, Appreciation, Time

Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Uncles, Children, Used

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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.

Marlee Matlin

Children, Waiting, Feelings

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If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

Steve Young

Guitar, Lazy, Nylon

Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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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.

Alexis Bledel

Girl, Worst Person, Advice

Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle

Summer, Nature, Spring

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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

Charles S. Dutton

Way, My Way

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Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

Tom Glazer

Years, Important, Might

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When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

Emile Hirsch

Girl, Pillow, Massive

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

Nigel Mansell

Sports, Athlete, Weekend

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lying, Intelligent, Intelligence

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Benjamin Franklin

Moving, Character, Energy

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With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Two

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

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Half

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I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

Danica Patrick

Thinking, Car, Equipment

Danica Patrick talks about the Indy 500, www.newsday.com.

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

Benjamin Franklin

Achievement, Resources, Fortune

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Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Records

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The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare

Fall, Flower, Rose

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

Rick Bragg

Baby, Stars, Grandma

FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013

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...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

Andy Warhol

Crazy, Sitting, Want

Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

Yoko Ono

Passion, Thinking, Effort

Source: www.yashawallin.com

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I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground.

Sylvia Day

Crush, Rain, Past

Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.499, Penguin

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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.

Thomas Gray

Humble, Earth, Youth

"ElegyWritten in a Country Churchyard" l. 117 (1751)

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Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Julian Green

Sitting, Location, Paint

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Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Naomi Mitchison

Fathers Day, Safety, Fatherhood

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