Lap Quotes - Page 3

• Police on my drawers
  I had to pause
  40 ounce in my lap
  And it's freezing my balls

  Eazy-E

  Hip Hop, Police, Balls

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

  Mae West

  Women, Luxury, Titles

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• We started on the pole but by Lap 150 we were ninth or 10th and we were struggling. The car was sliding around a lot, but I did not get upset. I just said, 'Let's just keep working hard.' Last year, I would have been so upset about getting passed by those cars I would have been overly aggressive and would have worn our tires out. You can't do that in a 500-mile race if you want to be strong at the end.

  Kasey Kahne

  Strong, Struggle, Race

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• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

  Alan Paton

  Fall, Dark, White

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax.

  Greg Biffle

  Race, Car, Relax

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• I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

  Rene Balcer

  Fall, Duty, Sympathetic

  "The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

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• 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.'

  Andrew Stanton

  Wall, Thinking, Facts

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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• First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same spe­cies. Our life­times over­lap. The meet­ings between humans are so unlikely as to be mira­cu­lous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. Every­one is made up of a col­lec­tion of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many mir­acles in this world.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Falling In Love, Laughing, World

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Autumn, Gay, Blow

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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• Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Wall, Memories, Giving

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• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

  David Hume

  Nature, Children, Science

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.452

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• I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

  Justin Allgaier

  Running, Practice, Phoenix

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• As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.

  Kristin Cashore

  Two, World, Rooms

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.235, Penguin

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• Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dark, Silence, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.36, Macmillan

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• I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—

  Jojo Moyes

  Suicidal, Son, Drunk

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, Leaving, Lazy

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• I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

  Danica Patrick

  Running, Fall, Athlete

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• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

  Aileen Quinn

  Blessed, Fall, Way

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• Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love You, Angel, Home

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.11, Penguin Group

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• 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.

  Liv Ullmann

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

  L. Welch Pogue

  Ocean, Home, Airplane

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• I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.147

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

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Violet

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

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