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On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was…

— Joan Rivers

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

— Adi Shankara

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw…

— Rachel Gibson

At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs.

— Robert E. Lerner

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

— Bill Watterson

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and…

— Lewis Black

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

— Thomas Hood

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall…

— Kim Harrison

From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 9/11…

— Michael Ware

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't…

— Bobby Clarke

They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to…

— Debora Spar

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I…

— Brian Setzer

You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the…

— William Goldman

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across…

— George H. W. Bush

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that…

— Charles Dickens

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a…

— John Calvin

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had…

— Charles Bukowski

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I…

— Walt Disney

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat…

— Virginia Woolf

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in…

— Jo Walton

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as…

— Dan Brown

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?”…

— Richelle Mead

“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand…

— Steven Erikson

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it…

— Wanda Sykes

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

— Warren Austin

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

— Loretta Lynn

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

— Julian Casablancas

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

— Richard Dawson

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

— Jim Jefferies

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

— Bob Costas

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the…

— Tatum O'Neal

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

— Robin McKinley

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

— Helen McCrory

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

— Laurie Colwin

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

— Aesop

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all…

— Will Rogers

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

— Tanith Lee