Sitting Quotes - page 8

Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence. (W.S. Merwin)
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. View quote
Dodie Smith
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. View quote
Dodie Smith
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. View quote
Richard Thompson
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach. View quote
Jessica Chastain
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise. View quote
Edward Frenkel
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up. View quote
Albert Brooks
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. View quote
Amanda Pays
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. View quote
Amy Waldman
Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. View quote
Angela Cartwright
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both. (Anja Rubik)
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. View quote
Annie Baker
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? View quote
Anthony A. Williams
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling. View quote
Ashley Wagner
You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. View quote
Athol Fugard
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance. View quote
Austin Mahone
It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. View quote
Ayad Allawi
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. View quote
Betty Carter
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. View quote
Bill Budge
Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous. (Billy Campbell)
My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row. View quote
Bobby Moynihan
Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic. View quote
Bryan Batt
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet. View quote
Bryan Stevenson
Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time. View quote
Bud Abbott