Sitting Quotes · Page 72

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

— Doyle Brunson

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.

— Natalie Dormer

The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian…

— Dorothy Dunnett

[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett…

— Reince Priebus

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows…

— Augusten Burroughs

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling…

— Henry Rollins

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my…

— Lauren DeStefano

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and…

— Simone Elkeles

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit…

— Juan Enriquez

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on…

— Julie Burchill

What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war…

— P. W. Singer

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would…

— Fred Frith

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

— Roger Taylor

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new…

— Toni Packer

Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it…

— Kosho Uchiyama

There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get…

— Ian Astbury

Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to…

— Ignatius Bryanchaninov

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we…

— Stephanie Gilmore

My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and…

— Errol Flynn

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her,…

— Kij Johnson

The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself…

— Harold Pinter

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on…

— Francesca Annis

You can't score runs if you're sitting in the dressing room.

— Steve Smith

Some shows are ages 16 and up, so there'd be like 11-year-old girls just sitting outside the shows for hours.

— Lil Mosey

The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not…

— Anonymous

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed…

— George Osborne

I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest.…

— Jon Bon Jovi

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have…

— Harriet Martineau

I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.

— Stephen Jackson

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it…

— Ira Glass

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

— Hayao Miyazaki

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about…

— Joyce Meyer

The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How…

— Kofi Annan

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction,…

— Pico Iyer

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

— Joel Salatin

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

— Harvey Fierstein

My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape…

— Joel Madden

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I…

— John C. Maxwell