Sitting Quotes · Page 7

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.”

— Louis Sachar

We're more L.A. than those guys sitting on their porches in Laurel Canyon.

— Russell Mael

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

— Kristin Hannah

When I'm 100% fit I cannot accept sitting on the bench.

— Nicklas Bendtner

“been sitting there showered him with irate”

— Jennifer Bray-Weber

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

— Queen Elizabeth II

Catch a wave and your sitting on top of the world.

— The Beach Boys

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

— Jens Lehmann

I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming…

— Cynthia Hand

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to…

— Patty Duke

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I'm always pretending that I'm sitting across from somebody. I'm telling them a story and I don't want them to get up…

— James Patterson

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the…

— Rajneesh

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with…

— Nicole Kidman

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part'…

— Joel Edgerton

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular…

— Robert Osborne

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed…

— Charles Montgomery

That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting…

— Kurt Busch

I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be…

— Miley Cyrus

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and…

— Penelope Lively

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna…

— Schoolboy Q

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts…

— Milla Jovovich

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there…

— Nicholas Stoller

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a…

— Helmut Newton

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a…

— Rebecca Solnit

I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it…

— Nick Lowe

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet…

— Rajneesh

“Most people in this "normal" society of ours begin sitting still in a room for six to eight hours beginning in childhood.…

— Johnny B. Truant

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I…

— Rumer Godden

...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the…

— Virginia Woolf

I so enjoy sitting down and watching my nieces, my nephews and my son.

— Cedella Marley

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

— William B. Davis

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

— Willem Dafoe

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

— Pat Summitt

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

— Nick Frost

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

— Sunil Chhetri

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

— Brian May