He Sat Quotes

72 quotes by 65 authors

Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind. — James I. Robertson, Jr.
I was quittingâ€¦As I was taking those steps I was saying, â€˜Somebody please stop me.â€™ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, â€˜Hold up a minute,â€™… — Joe Greene
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait… — Vernon Howard
That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger… — Michael Lewis
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a… — Taylor Hackford
Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping? — Jedediah Berry
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant,… — Jack Handey
Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was… — Dale Carnegie
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a… — Vincente Minnelli
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit… — Madeleine Stowe
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the… — Richard Yates
As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture. — Tatum O'Neal
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside… — Homer
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical… — Peter Agre
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys… — Duncan Jones
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way… — Edith Wharton
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
I gave my cat a bath the other day...they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would… — Steve Martin

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