Lap Quotes - Page 14

• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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• 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

  Guy, Napkins, Tables

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• The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Looks, Littles

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Earth, Might, Hue

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• [On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

  Laura Kightlinger

  New York, Coffee, Cities

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• It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

  Jane Porter

  Hero, Angel, Temptation

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

  Rosanne Cash

  Running, Divorce, Years

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• I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

  Ethel Smyth

  Running, Fate, Luck

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.

  Chris McCormack

  Years, Ice, Car

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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• Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

  Amin Maalouf

  Gratitude, Race, Progress

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.412, Macmillan

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• I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Thinking, Nhl, People

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
  Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
  When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
  “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”
  “Even after all this time
  the sun never says to the earth
  “You owe me”
  Look what happens with a love like that,
  It lights the whole sky..”

  Hafez

  Mother, Children, Boys

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• 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

  Real, Toilets, Invasion

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• ...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

  God, Jesus, Son

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

  Bill Bryson

  Car, Way, Parks

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Mother, Father, Home

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• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Sea, Land

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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• 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.

  Denise Levertov

  Dark, Space, Water

  Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions

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• I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Team, Swimming

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• Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Feet, Fawns

  Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes”, p.232

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• Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect, Dog, Power

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• The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Growing Up, Lying

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Happened

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