Sitting Quotes

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. View quote
Ogden Nash
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. View quote
Warren Buffett
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. View quote
Robert Benchley
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. View quote
Dr. Seuss
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. View quote
William F. Buckley
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do. View quote
George C. Marshall
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. View quote
Wallace Stevens
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. (Woody Allen)
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. View quote
Aravind Adiga
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. View quote
Tommy Douglas
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. View quote
Enya
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. View quote
Roman Polański
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. View quote
Georgette Heyer
I have got only one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it. View quote
Jeanne Calment
There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. (Russell Crowe)
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. View quote
Richard Branson
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
📖 Sitting Proverbs