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Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. — Sabrina Jeffries

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

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk. — Bill Nye

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar. — Marilynne Robinson

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. — Kristan Higgins

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car. — Murray Walker

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. — Annette Bening

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's. — Naomi Shihab Nye

You're pregnant?" I can't even believe the words I'm saying as I pull her toward me, and onto my lap. — K. Bromberg

Kate," Lucern interrupted.
"What?" she asked warily.
"I do not need blood." He tugged her off balance and into his lap. "All I need is you. — Lynsay Sands

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

quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. — Anthony Doerr

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer

Recover? She clasped her hands in her lap, staring at them as pain welled up in her chest. Could one recover from a broken heart — Sasha Summers

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only a fool believes a thing of value will be laid in her lap with no reckoning. — Brian Staveley

But winter lingering chills the lap of May. — Oliver Goldsmith

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal. — Christy Hall

As a child crawls up into his daddy's lap, we too can climb into our Father's arms and tell Him all that is in our hearts. — Bill Bright

Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps. — Geoffrey Chaucer

March against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to — Caitlin Moran

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life. — Tim Blake Nelson

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. — Alexander Pope

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back. — Eddie Griffin

I had a gorgeous, half-naked woman straddling my lap, but apparently I wasn't supposed to do anything about it. — Eliza Lentzski

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. — Michelle Obama

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. — Charles Bukowski

It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while sleeping on the lap of carnal security. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Whole World:
My favorite thing
is being your lap
while we sit there
together & love
the whole world. — Brian Andreas

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. — William Shakespeare

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

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested."
She looked from his lap to his face.
"Your nose is growing too. — Cindy Gerard

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. — Confucius

He sighs. "It's just, you said they're up there protecting us..." He looks down at his hands in his lap. "Then why didn't they protect me? — Dannielle Wicks

Now wholly in the lap of whatever god has been appointed the job of protecting small boys. — Stephen King

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break. — Imtiaz Dharker

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. — David Coleman

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

Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog. — Paula Wall

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.

Come sit on my lap. I want to hear all about your sexual harassment lunch.
-Hank to his secretary, Rachel — Richard Russo

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. — Russell Simmons

Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can't go back," I said. I looked over at Perry. "Ain't that right, kiddo? — Karina Halle

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. — Fanny Fern

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.' — Cilla Black

When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap. — Danny Castillo

Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes you have to chase what you really want because everything in life worth having won't fall into your lap. — Kim Karr

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap. — Oveta Culp Hobby

He said nothing, just pulled me down into his lap and wrapped his arms around me. — Ruta Sepetys

Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever. — Khadija Rupa

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! — Eugene O'Neill

BENEDICK: I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; — William Shakespeare

Lady Eleanor sat at the window seat of her chambers, gently stroking her son's head in her lap. — Jeff Wheeler

He falls on her lap and lies there quivering like a toothache — Henry Miller

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

He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,
every time. — Jodi Picoult

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

What man didn't enjoy a beautiful woman curled up in his lap, even if she did treat him like a scratching post every time she woke up? — Paige Tyler

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap. — Colin Farrell

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. — Mal Peet

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

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

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

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap. — Charles S. Dutton

Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. — Gregory Maguire

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

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. — John Fogerty

Give me your phone number?" She smiled, looking down at her lap.
"Sorry. No. It would be a mistake."
"Would it help if I promised not to be? — Ruthie Knox

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton

How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings? — Sally Painter

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap. — Phillip W. Simpson

Her mouth was soft and moist, and she came to me like a dachshund jumping into your lap. — Charles Williams

He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap. — Christina Baker Kline

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. — C.S. Lewis

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. — Cloris Leachman

Though Emily is a bit of a cat, and cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat. Sometimes I — Anonymous

My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants. — Thom Yorke

He was over Keith's lap, pants down. He heard Reed's sharp intake of breath as he watched. Reed — S.E. Jakes

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

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. — Carl Sandburg

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

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. — Richelle Mead

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap ... I chose not to dump her off. — Gary Hart

]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray — Sappho

One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster! — Garth Stein

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. — Rodney Dangerfield

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse. — W. H. Auden

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. — Sammy Davis Jr.

If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line — Carrie Jones

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way. — Aileen Quinn

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

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism. — Edward Abbey

Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled. — Nancy Thayer

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap. — George R R Martin

Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctials blow. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

It was a rare man who didn't mind having a woman dump all her problems and insecurities in his lap. — Sherryl Woods