Sitting Quotes - Page 39

• Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

  Maria von Trapp

  Memories, Hands, Games

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.

  Eda LeShan

  Love, Couple, Pain

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• After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Money, Wall, Thinking

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• Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.

  James Dobson

  Beautiful, Father, Years

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Play, Waiting

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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• In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Attitude, Writing, Vocabulary

  Donald E. Westlake (2014). “The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Writing, Mad

  "That difficult first novel" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2007.

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• I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

  Nat King Cole

  Fairy Stories, Piano, Sitting Down

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• How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.

  America Ferrera

  Love You, Taken, Thinking

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• Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Reading, Cities

  "Joey Barton: a man of two halves" by Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Morning, Home

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Faith, Dream

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Weed, Men, Garden

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Sheep

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• There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Epic

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• People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking.... Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Beautiful, Distance

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• It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.

  Charles H. Moore

  Talking, Language, Kind

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

  Max Reger

  Writing, House, Rooms

  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.

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• But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Rights, Long

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.150

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• I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

  Ric Ocasek

  Country, Song, Writing

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• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Holiday, Journey

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