One Sits Quotes

27 quotes by 22 authors

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. — Taki Theodoracopulos
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one… — Carl Linnaeus
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,' — Stacy Schiff
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is… — Rajneesh
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and… — Richard Bach
The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so… — Deepak Chopra
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not… — Leonid Brezhnev
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be… — Oscar Wilde
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is… — John Zorn
Between two stools one sits on the ground. — Francois Rabelais
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and… — James Thurber
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep… — Khalil Gibran
Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can… — Rumi
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… — Graham Greene
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.… — Oscar Wilde
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Who Wrote These One Sits Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 27 One Sits Quotes as follows: