Sits Quotes

486 Sits quotes by 381 unique authors

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are… — Haruki Murakami
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:… — Orhan Pamuk
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may… — Charlotte Bronte
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows… — Beryl Markham
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait. — John Scalzi
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour… — Flannery O'Connor
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he… — Philip Pullman
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
...Bananach sits on your throne, has declared herself Dark Queen." "She WHAT!?" Niall- or perhaps Irial-asked. — Melissa Marr
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
She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had… — Elizabeth Berg
I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says,… — Jerome Lawrence
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've… — Maureen Johnson
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll… — Maureen Johnson
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and… — Barbara Kingsolver
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the… — Wendell Berry
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news… — Dean Koontz
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as… — Henry David Thoreau
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid — Oscar Wilde
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and… — Thomas Hardy
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. — William Shakespeare
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our… — John Keats
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell
What about a man who sits down to wonder Why life has cheated him? Thinks about his situation Hangs his head and cries Will we… — Mitch Albom

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