Lap Quotes - Page 5

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

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

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

The work of memory collapses time.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.