Sitting Quotes

I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.