Sitting Quotes

I have a bath. It just relaxes me. Sitting there for a bit and just breathe and go ‘ffffuuuhhh….’, you know.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it.

It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.