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My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes. -- Amy Weber
My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am. -- Lark Voorhies
We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. -- Katherine Paterson
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. -- Robert Olen Butler
Triumphant hours are the Lark's Who circles skywards from his home each day: World's early riser, with bubbling golden song, Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate. -- Dafydd ap Gwilym
My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes. -- Amy Weber
Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases -- Tamora Pierce
Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people. -- Tamora Pierce
I sing like a lark. -- Layne Staley
We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. -- Nicholas Breton
I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark. -- John Darnielle
In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago. -- Luke Evans
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. -- Edmund Waller
None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad. -- Kate Winslet
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. -- Huey Lewis
It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I love it. -- Richard Desmond
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. -- Fawn M. Brodie
Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life. -- Jerry Reed
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. -- Maya Lin
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. -- Teddy Sears
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. -- Emma Watson
Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings. -- Joe Shuster
In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at. -- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced. -- Jonathan Tropper
A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it. -- Ben Affleck
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark. -- D. B. Sweeney
I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with. -- Judy Parfitt
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!' -- Teddy Sears
I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact. -- Jonah Peretti
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it. -- Ben Affleck
What a lark! What a plunge! -- Virginia Woolf
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies. -- William Ernest Henley
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. -- Victor Hugo
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. -- Nicholas Breton
I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark! -- Jacob Grimm
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. -- William Shakespeare
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? -- William Shakespeare
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. -- Edmund Burke
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. -- John Milton
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. -- John Lyly
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. -- John Milton
I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring. -- Betty White
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised. -- Martin Popoff
Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. -- Walter Scott
It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason. -- Burt Reynolds
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead. -- Thomas Hood
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!" -- Florence Earle Coates
Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. -- Tobias Smollett
Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark. -- Betty White
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark. -- Jacques Rigaut
Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle. -- Kelly Corrigan
I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war? -- Tom Springfield
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. -- Oscar Wilde
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic. -- Dean Koontz
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure. -- Dante Alighieri
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins. -- Hector Berlioz
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. -- John B. Tabb

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