Lap famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
-- Ab-Soul -
Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.
-- Aileen Quinn -
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
-- Aimee Bender -
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 his permission.
-- Alyson Noel -
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 -
I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
-- Angela Kinsey -
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
-- Anne Enright -
Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.
-- Arthur Blank -
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
-- Barbara Mertz -
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
-- Bayard Taylor -
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.
-- Brody Jenner -
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
-- Bruce Nauman -
I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
-- Bryan Adams -
Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.
-- Carey Lowell -
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
-- Charles S. Dutton -
Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.
-- Cindy Gerard -
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-- Danica Patrick -
I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
-- Danica Patrick -
When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.
-- Danny Castillo -
I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.
-- David Baldacci -
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
-- Derek Tangye -
A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.
-- Donita K. Paul -
Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls
-- Eazy-E -
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 -
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.
-- Eva Mendes -
I keep chicks in my lap, throwing me head fakes!
-- Fabolous -
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.
-- Fannie Lou Hamer -
My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.
-- Freddie Prinze, Jr. -
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.
-- Friedrich Naumann -
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher -
Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.
-- Imtiaz Dharker -
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap
-- Irving Stone -
You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each day a little faster. That is putting demands on the body, and that is how you build up. You keep up your energy instead of going downhill.
-- Jack LaLanne -
For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.
-- Jackie Stewart -
The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
-- Jacky Ickx -
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 -
F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.
-- Jean Alesi -
You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.
-- Jeff Gordon -
For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.
-- Jenson Button -
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.
-- Jim Trelease -
I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.
-- Joey Dunlop -
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.
-- John Milton -
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
-- John Milton -
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
-- Kevin James -
It’s really over, isn’t it?†He laughed and pulled me into his lap. “That’s the beauty of it all. Nothing’s over. It’s just a new start.
-- Kiersten White -
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 -
It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
-- Learned Hand -
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio -
My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.
-- Lev L. Spiro -
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
-- Lin Yutang -
The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
-- Mae West -
Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear....
-- Meg Cabot -
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 -
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
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.
-- Neil Diamond -
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
-- Orson Welles -
Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
-- Oveta Culp Hobby -
He himself will go into the drain and take his boy in his own lap. He will clean his dress, clean his clothes, clean his body; and afterward he will say, "My boy, you should walk carefully."
-- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar -
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
-- Rene Balcer -
I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!
-- Rick Astley -
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
-- Robin Williams -
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.
-- Russell Simmons -
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.
-- Sabrina Jeffries -
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
-- Sam Mendes -
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.
-- Sebastian Vettel -
Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.
-- Sebastian Vettel -
I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.
-- Sebastian Vettel -
On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff
-- Stella Vine -
Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.†Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out.†Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even.†Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?†Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded.†She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.
-- Susan Elizabeth Phillips -
The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
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 -
...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.
-- Todd Burpo -
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 -
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.
-- Tracy Kidder -
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.
-- Valerie Bertinelli -
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
-- Warsan Shire -
Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
-- Warsan Shire -
My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them.
-- Joey Badass -
I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.
-- Keith Thurman -
Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.
-- Paul Ramadge -
My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.
-- Eddie Griffin -
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
-- George Bancroft -
Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.
-- Imtiaz Dharker -
Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.
-- Julian Green
