Top 521 Lap Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.
The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.
Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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.
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 woman.
Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water
lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer
upon them; let a boat be kept there.
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.
I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.
I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.
Keeping the magic alive can be as simple as going to the mall to sit on Santa's lap or reading special stories on Christmas Eve.
I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.
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.
Sometimes, things just fall into your lap. You look back and try to figure out how it all happened and you never know.
To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
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.'
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.
There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.
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.
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
With my own son, my style of mothering has been to bring him everywhere. He's sitting on my lap during interviews. When I went to the White House to meet President Obama, he was there.
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.
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 the lap than the strong one.
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.
When I was working as a stylist, I was called in to meet the band All Saints. I opened the door, tripped and landed in Nicole's lap. Not a good start, but I got the job.
When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
I am somebody who is very lucky. 'Kaanta Laga' just fell into my lap and even 'Baby Come Naa.'
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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.
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.
My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.
Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.
Nothing will land on your lap, you need to work hard and fight for your dreams.
Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.
