Sitting Around Quotes

• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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• I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Moving, Sitting, Television

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

  John Green

  Sitting, Stories, My Friends

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

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• Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Children, People, Community

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans.

  D. J. MacHale

  Girl, Beach, Jobs

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sweet, Children, Taken

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• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

  Helene Hanff

  Mother, Knives, People

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• It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

  Nancy Garden

  Falling In Love, Thinking, People

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

  Daniel Handler

  Money, Children, Eye

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• As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

  Seth Godin

  People, Needs, Roles

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• One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Mistake, Waiting

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• You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark

  Suzanne Collins

  Winter, Night, Fire

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• The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything.

  James A. Baldwin

  Space, Waiting, Forever

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• Let's say that you want to do everything out of the joy that comes from knowing the Lord. Well, a lot of people aren't built like that emotionally. If they think that some sort of feeling is the basis for their action, they are going to feel justified sitting around, although they are going to feel bad that they have never taken one step of obedience because their heart is cold.

  Mark Dever

  Taken, Heart, Thinking

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Attitude, College

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• I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Sitting, Rooms, Theater

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• I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Notebook, Sitting, Dozen

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• I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.

  Jai Courtney

  Friday, Children, Night

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

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• When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

  Fiona Apple

  Fun, Kids, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

  John Boyne

  Sitting, Pajamas, Miserable

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• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, Bores You, Fire

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• I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

  Scott Ian

  Player, Guitar, Trying

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• I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

  George H. W. Bush

  Winning, Sitting, Remember

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• My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

  Richard Branson

  Philosophy, New Ventures, Marketing

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

  Angelina Jolie

  Business, Believe, People

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