One Sits Quotes
27 quotes by 22 authors
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
— Nicholson Baker
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Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
— Taki Theodoracopulos
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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
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
— Verner Panton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
— Karl Kraus
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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
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
— Francois Rabelais
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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
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joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep…
— Khalil Gibran
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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
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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
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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
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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: