Sitting Quotes

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.