Sitting Quotes - page 2

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. View quote
Jim Carrey
'T is as cheap sitting as standing. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. View quote
Penn Jillette
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. View quote
Sally Ride
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting. View quote
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. View quote
Charles Kettering
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. (Fred Saberhagen)
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. View quote
Dan Buettner
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically. View quote
Ken Follett
This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything. View quote
Renny Harlin
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. View quote
Helen Dunmore
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. View quote
Rod Taylor
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No. View quote
Vernon Jordan
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal. View quote
Yvonne Craig
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer. View quote
Zakk Wylde
I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away. (Ricky Hatton)
I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
I just want to say that um, I'm just really, really shocked at like how nice our world is because it's just so nice. Like oh my God! Like, the other day, like I was sitting there and I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and like, it's so true. Like America, believe everything you read. Because, like, you're smart and I'm stupid. Like for real. Come on y'all. View quote
Britney Spears
Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come... View quote
John Lennon
I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do. View quote
Frank Zappa
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