“ If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap. ”
- Richard Butler- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me. ”
- Stan Lee- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living. ”
- Milton Berle- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh no he isn't! It's a lap record. ”
- Murray Walker- Copy
- 610
“ The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny arf - the sound of a lap dog. ”
- George Will- Copy
- 3.4K
“ To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. ”
- Max Stirner- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance… a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. ”
- William Barclay- Copy
- 1.5K
“ How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. ”
- Archibald Thompson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap. ”
- Kathrine Palmer Peterson- Copy
- 2K
“ Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. ”
- William Bennett- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I have seen few things as beautiful as a 6:30am lift-off from San Francisco International Airport in the autumn. From above, the rippled fog layer laps against the shores of the foothills like a voluminous cotton ocean. ”
- Eric Cheng- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I've been twice lucky - I guess I shouldn't expect to win the lottery any time soon. Enjoying that success as a child actor kept me interested, and kept me participating in acting. After that finished I had a really fallow year and Dawson's Creek fell into my lap. ”
- Joshua Jackson- Copy
- 480
“ That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap. ”
- Orlando Jones- Copy
- 88
“ Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. When my last Great Dane died, I thought I would never get another. I loved that dog so much. But my son Jeffrey found Hugo at a kennel that was overstocked; Hugo was almost 2, just over being a puppy… ”
- Anna Lee- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire. ”
- James Morris- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive. ”
- Sean Astin- Copy
- 2.7K
“ What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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