Sitting Quotes

• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Spring
  • Comes
  • Itself

• Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

  

  Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Life
  • Art
  • Social

• Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things.

  

  Val Logsdon Fitch
  • Quality
  • Sitting

• I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

  

  Noma Bar
  • Sitting
  • Wood
  • Sketching

• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.

  

  Deacon Jones
  • Kind
  • Special
  • Proven

• I thought when I get to 70, I would be sitting on the ranch and doing less, and I'm doing more. I would say, with all things equal, five more years.

  

  Gary Player
  • Sitting
  • Ranch

• Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Worried
  • Phones
  • Anxious

• People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • People
  • Hard
  • Office

• Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Wells
  • Used
  • Steps

• for whom sitting and waiting is a way of life.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Life
  • Way
  • Waiting

• I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • Play
  • Stage

• You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Despair
  • Rooms

• I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Home
  • Movie
  • Chill

• I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'

  

  Nico Rosberg
  • People
  • Remember
  • Clearly

• (The streak) is important and it shows accountability but at the same time, I'm not really concerned with it. There's a lot of great players that have missed a lot of games, so I'm not concerned with that. It's just (that) I want to be out there to help my team win, and I know I can't do anything sitting on the sidelines.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Help
  • Win
  • Cannot

• One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reactions
  • Length

• Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everything
  • Sitting
  • Pot

• We've got to take care of our own business. If we don't do that, we could be sitting at home in a few weeks.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Home
  • Business
  • Own

• There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Dark

• I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Smoking
  • Lemonade
  • Cigars

• When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Cutting

• I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Writing
  • Sitting
  • Buddy

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