Top 25 Sitting Still Quotes of 33 - Page 2

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Grief, Sitting Still, Space

Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.52, Harper Collins

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

Tina Turner

Differences, Sitting Still, Long

"Tina Turner 'Speaks Up' in 1985". Interview with Peter Panton for Speak Up Magazine, tinaturnerblog.com. 1985.

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

Ray Bradbury

Children, Sitting Still, People

The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.

Paul Watson

Cutting, Sitting Still, Sea

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Jef Mallett

Book, Reading, Sitting Still

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

Writing, Sitting Still, Wish

"Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

Frederick Busch

Beautiful, Sitting Still, Worry

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