Sit Quotes - page 4

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. (William Wordsworth)
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land Man got to tell himself he understand. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on Judge not the play before the play is done Her plot hath many changes every day Speaks a new scene the last act crowns the play. View quote
Francis Quarles
Heat, ma'am' I said 'it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. View quote
Sydney Smith
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. View quote
Mason Cooley
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. View quote
John Milton
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. View quote
Albert Einstein
If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting. (Herman J. Mankiewicz)
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. View quote
Robert B. Parker
My business savvy it's instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong. View quote
Tamara Mellon
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair, and the first thing they grab is an iron hook. View quote
Bill Cosby
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. View quote
Daniel Steele
I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. View quote
David Almond
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? View quote
David Baldacci
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front. (E. Lockhart)
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. View quote
Christian Bale
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. View quote
Garry Shandling
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. View quote
Mose Allison
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be. View quote
Fay Wray