Sitting Quotes - Page 16

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

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 than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.