Lap Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I need your help.” Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He waited. “One last job,” Hadrian told him, then added, “I promise.” “Is it dangerous?” “Very.” “Is there a good chance I’ll get killed?” “Odds are definitely in favor of that.” Royce nodded, looked down at the scarf in his lap, and replied, “Okay.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Jobs, Eye, Odds

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• We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Trouble, Storyteller

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• One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.

  David Platt

  Sight, People, Midnight

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• The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Baby, Children, Salmon

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• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

  Harry Mulisch

  Mother, Children, War

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

  Ira Glass

  Jobs, Ideas, Waiting

  "I'm Ira Glass, Host of This American Life, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

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• 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

  New Start, Over It, Laughed

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• From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Book, Pages Turning

  Rita Dove (1993). “Selected Poems”, Vintage

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• 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

  Girl, Eye, Jake

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mean Spirits”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt like I was using every muscle in my face. But I did it. I saw you from upside down, your lips above my eyes and your eyes above my lips. "Talk to me," you said. My throat felt like it was closing up, as if my skin had swollen, making my throat a lump of solid flesh. I gripped your hand. "Keep watching me, then," you said. "Keep listening.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Eye, Hands

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Husband, Lying

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.109, Macmillan

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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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• It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Fall, Law

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• One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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• 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

  Mind, Soup, Comeback

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• And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

  John Milton

  Caring, Air, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

  David Baldacci

  Children, Writing, Crying Child

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• Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

  John Updike

  Struggle, Editors, Class

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 30, 2014

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• 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

  Art, Acting, Agents

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

  Liza Mundy

  Love, Inspirational, Hate

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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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