Sitting Down Quotes

124 quotes by 117 authors

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it… — Alice Walker
Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the… — C.S. Lewis
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it… — E E Cummings
I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly,… — Sarah Dessen
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting… — Mignon McLaughlin
Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything… — Ann Landers
Americans have a taste forâ€¦rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said. — Brandon Sanderson
How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the… — Brandon Sanderson
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit… — Terry Pratchett
According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond… — Gilles Deleuze
So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me… — Michael Thomas Ford
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know… — Virginia Woolf
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield
Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More… — Darynda Jones
Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts… — Naomi Novik
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down,"… — Julie Garwood

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