He Sat Quotes
72 quotes by 65 authors
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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
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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.
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I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold up a minute,’…
— Joe Greene
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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
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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
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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
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Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?
— Jedediah Berry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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