Sitting Quotes - Page 14

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

I have a bath. It just relaxes me. Sitting there for a bit and just breathe and go ‘ffffuuuhhh….’, you know.

I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

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 asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.