Tom Glazer

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

American Musician

Summer Sanders

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.

American Athlete

Michael Waltrip

I think people - especially folks who haven't seen a lot of NASCAR - they get this idea that we're just going around in circles. And that's so far from the truth. You're running as hard as you can to get all you can every lap.

American Driver

William Gurnall

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

English Author

Marlee Matlin

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

American Actress

Sandi Toksvig

Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.

British Writer

Rob Cross

In life you cannot expect things to fall into your lap, you have got to work hard.

English Celebrity

Aileen Quinn

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

Kevin James

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

American Comedian

Carmen Dell'Orefice

American Model

Used to describe situations where someone sits on another person's lap as a sign of affection.

Affectionate Gestures

'Lap' can also refer to a place for holding objects while sitting.

Place for Objects

Primarily used in sports racing to measure distance or progress.

Racing Context

Can indicate superiority when a racer laps others in competition.

Achievement Indicator

Refers to how animals drink, often with a gentle sound.

Animal Behavior

Highlights a slight and often gentle covering of an object by another.

Partial Covering

Indicates a strategy to gain a significant advantage in a race.

Racing Strategy

Can be used to describe someone significantly ahead in a competitive situation.

Competition Status

 this incredible freedom of choice we have with respect to work, is that we have to make a decision, again and again and again, about whether we should or shouldn't be working. We can go to watch our kid play soccer, and we have our cell phone on one hip and our Blackberry on our other hip, and our laptop, presumably, on our laps.

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 or our need for togetherness and for autonomy, and if you think about the little kid who sits on your lap and who is cozily nested here and very secure and comfortable, and at some point all of us need to go out into the world to discover and to explore. That's the beginning of desire,

The secret to desire in...

 This was the focus of our whole lives. This was the only way for me to do good in a world that sits in Satan's lap. And like the rest of my 10 siblings, I believed what I was taught with all my heart, and I pursued Westboro's agenda with a special sort of zeal.

I grew up in the...

 oh no supervisor wow she's so heavy my darling I have to say Shelly in a whole lifetime working with animals this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen you are sitting with a hippo on your lap in your front room how on earth

Daredevil Cuddles With...

 In fact, everything was better than fine. These people who had lifelong fears of snakes were saying things like, "Look how beautiful that snake is." And they were holding it in their laps.

How to build your...

 people who donated tended to be happier than those who didn't. But this may all be easier said than done. Let's say a million dollars falls into your lap tomorrow. What do you do with it?

Would winning the...

 You hear the gentle lap of waves, the distant cawing of a seagull. But then an annoying whine interrupts the peace, getting closer, and closer, and closer. Until...whack!

The science of hearing -...

 right at one point I'm back here it's it's some laps not helping is it I'm back here the multi-directional microphone in the

Expanding our definition...

 well deserved victory lap to the cheers of the throttle

Eagle vs. Sea Snake PIPE...

 well deserved victory lap to the cheers of the throng