You Sit Quotes

326 You Sit quotes by 275 unique authors

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an… — Albert Einstein
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your… — Nora Ephron
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up… — Michael Haneke
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room… — B B King
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches… — Stanley Kubrick
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. — Elmore Leonard
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience… — Thabo Mbeki
The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members,… — John McCain
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V.S. Naipaul
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. — Mehmet Oz
If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented. — Karl Pilkington
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People… — Kid Rock
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down… — Desmond Tutu
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an… — Eddie Vedder
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and… — Earl Warren
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. — Peter Weir
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone… — Regina Brett
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know… — Helen Fisher
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair. — Ani DiFranco
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an… — Thornton Wilder
Where you stand depends on where you sit. — Nelson Mandela
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,… — Stephen King
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down… — Dorianne Laux
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy,… — Neil Gaiman
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into… — James N. Frey

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