Sitting Quotes - Page 16

• I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Surfing, Mexico

  "Jesse Ventura goes gangsta" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 13, 2012.

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• When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Thinking, Piano

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

  Jimmy Wales

  World, Computer, Ends

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• Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Sunset, Men, Years

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• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  Orson Welles

  Truth, White, Feelings

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• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  Orson Welles

  Fighting, Use, Actors

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• But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

  Allen West

  Country, Years, America

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• We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Success, Artist, Boys

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• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  Prince William

  Fire, Trying, Would Be

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• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  Rainn Wilson

  Men, Light, America

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• The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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  Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Ifs And, Doe

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• I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

  Tom Wolfe

  Light, Two, Long

  "The liberal elite hasn't got a clue". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  Zakk Wylde

  Beer, Men, Rocks

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• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  Felicia Day

  Coffee, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Interesting, Sitting Down, Needs

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• I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

  Keeley Hawes

  Bob, Next, Sofas

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• Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.

  Arjun Rampal

  Gratitude, Religious, Heart

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• Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!

  Sheridan Smith

  Girl, Boys, Blonde

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• All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

  Dorothy Parker

  Being Thankful, Sitting Down, World

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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• That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dark, Night, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.35, Penguin

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• Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Christian, Religious

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Music, Laughter, Reality

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