Sitting Quotes - Page 4

• There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King.

  Drew Pinsky

  Kings, Doors, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Father, Reading, Eye

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• I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

  Chef Wan

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

  Dan Wells

  Giants, Leafs, Miles

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

  Vivien Leigh

  Country, Memories, Drinking

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Mother, Children

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

  Phil Ochs

  Feet, People, Endurance

  Song: Fifty Mile Hike

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• When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

  Natasha Friend

  Believe, Ifs

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• Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

  Malcolm X

  America, History, Diners

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fire, Sitting Still, One Day

  Angelina Jolie's speech at the Kids' Choice Awards, time.com. March 29, 2015.

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• When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Ideas, Getting Older, Baths

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

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• Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Vibrations

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• If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?

  Taylor Swift

  Water, Remember

  "Song: "Mine" (Album: "Speak Now")". 2010.

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• I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mirrors, Evening, Company

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

  Joan Didion

  Summer, Writing, Self Love

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

  Lauren Myracle

  Class, Knowing, People

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• We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'

  Vincent Harding

  Motivational, Kings, Blessed

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• She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.

  Lynn Kurland

  Beautiful, Garden, Imagination

  Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.97, Penguin

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• I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.38, Jerome K. Jerome

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• People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

  Austin Mahone

  People, Dancing, Want

  "Austin Mahone On His New Single And Summer Tour (With Taylor Swift!)". Interview With Casey Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.

  Sean Mackin

  Growing Up, Writing, Kids

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• Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Philosophy, Waiting, Slipping

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• I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Guitar, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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