Sat Quotes - Page 5

• My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

  Thom Yorke

  Years, Names, Parent

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• Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

  William Beebe

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Rocks

  William Beebe (1921). “Edge of the Jungle”

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• And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Hands, Numbers

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

  David Mamet

  Talking, Years, Guy

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Different

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• The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.

  Dave Barry

  Attitude, Organization, Term

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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

  Paula Poundstone

  Writing, Cutting, Talking

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• I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just to kinda flush it out there and put it on a page. And I started to do this, and I had an epiphany. I'll share this with you: a suicide note that is written by somebody that is not suicidal is called an autobiography. I am on Chapter 58.

  Dane Cook

  Suicide, Optimistic, Suicidal

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• You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Waiting, Might

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• All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airports, Years, People

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• At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were people sitting on the other side but those were the people going, You know, the air conditioning hits me right on the back on the neck.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Most of the time, it just sat there in my body, until the weekend. After five or six takes of crying, your body does not want to cry anybody. Your body is like, "I'm over this, can we start laughing, or something?," but you have to keep the emotion. It's a really weird process and it definitely just stays with you.

  Tinsel Korey

  Weekend, Laughing, Body

  Source: collider.com

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• Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.

  Al Kooper

  Guitar, Play, Careers

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• I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them.

  Ashley Rickards

  Party, School, Venice

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• I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

  Wanda Sykes

  Down And, Talent, Stage

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• I always wondered if those WWJD bracelets worked, so I bought one the other day. Well, a few minutes later, I was on a plane and this little kid was kicking my seat repeatedly, while his sister sang along with her walkman and their mother just sat there. I almost turned around and went off, and then I caught sight of my bracelet. What would Jesus do? So I lit them on fire and sent them all to Hell.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mother, Jesus, Kids

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• We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

  Christopher Titus

  Down And, Different, Vain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How come Mom is crazy and I'm not? Well, it's possible my mom could stand up in front of this many people and talk about all the crap in her life and those people could have sat around and laughed with her, it would've meant nothing and she could have moved on cool. It's also possible she could have taken out the whole front row with a large-caliber weapon.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Crazy, Taken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

  Dana Gould

  Soup, Way, Eating

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• When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine my cat had died. It took me a while to think about it, but then I felt myself physically crumble. I got myself into a state that was actually pretty hard to get out of.

  Mia Goth

  Cat, Thinking, Firsts

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• I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

  Dylan Moran

  Careers, Down And, Honest

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• When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

  John Lennon

  War, Bed, Use

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

  Benjamin Rush

  Struggle, Army, Winter

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• Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

  Samuel Pepys

  Reading, Book, Bed

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.464, Univ of California Press

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• The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

  Elvis Presley

  Beautiful, Night, Car

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