Sitting Quotes - Page 2
Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.
Song: I Still Wanna Rock
Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
"General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman" by Ed Cray, (p. 591), 1991.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.5, Random House
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.192, Vintage
Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam
Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.