Sitting Quotes · Page 56

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need…

— Tama Janowitz

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm…

— India de Beaufort

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,…

— Kiki Smith

Hopefully I'm not a grumpy old guy sitting in the corner, yelling at people and demanding things.

— George W. Bush

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain…

— Caroline Rhea

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

— Maggie Stiefvater

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping…

— Rob Sheffield

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see…

— Geraldo Rivera

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

— Patsy Cline

I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory,…

— Lisa Randall

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.

— Drew Carey

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting…

— Frederick Lenz

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great…

— Mark Wahlberg

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."…

— Natalie Goldberg

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life…

— Nikki Sixx

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have…

— Eckhart Tolle

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance…

— Illinois Jacquet

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's…

— Jack Nicklaus

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit…

— Andrea Arnold

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.…

— Grace Paley

I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here…

— Manolo Blahnik

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or…

— Robertson Davies

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

— Sarah Dessen

I've stayed in so many hotel rooms that I'm shocked if, when I stay in a hotel room, the hotel phone isn't…

— Jim Gaffigan

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

— Maureen Lipman

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other…

— Bill Keller

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the…

— Robert Crais

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to…

— Sinead O'Connor

Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his…

— Charles Dickens

If there's a game that comes out, I've pretty much got it, played it, and it's sitting here in my room.

— Samoa Joe

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

— Tahereh Mafi

There's no point in sitting around complaining about losing.

— Chris Sale

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

— Leonard Ravenhill

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a…

— Bill Cosby

I don't like concert-halls where everyone is sitting down and it's all very formal.

— Gary Moore

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all…

— Martin McDonagh

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon