Sitting Quotes - Page 40

• It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Years, People

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Duets, Trampolines

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• I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

  Charlie Daniels

  Music, Writing, Guitar

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• I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.

  William J. Clinton

  Dark, Government, Careers

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• I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

  Gordon Cooper

  Government, Feelings, Astronaut

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• Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Successful, Ducks

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

  Aberjhani

  Men, Brain, Rooftops

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!

  Rob Ford

  Daughter, Teaching, Kids

  "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.

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• The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Fire, World, Computer

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.104, North Atlantic Books

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• I can tell Tajh Boyd is scared back there. He ain't no sitting duck, but you can see in his eyes that he's scared of our D-linemen. We know that coming into the game that we have him shook already. We get a couple hits on him and it changes the whole game. He's scared every time we play them. I know he's probably listening to this right now, but I'm just telling the truth, man.

  Jadeveon Clowney

  Couple, Eye, Men

  "The best Jadeveon Clowney quotes from SEC Media Day" by Christopher Wilson, sports.yahoo.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Drinking, Book

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

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• Parties don't thrill me. I like sitting at home with a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream watching Big Brother or Friends.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Brother, Party, Home

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• It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

  William B. Davis

  Change, Sea, Things Change

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  The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

  Steve Harvey

  Successful, People, World

  FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from Jan 08, 2015

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• I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and have freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long days sitting in my trailer waiting...waiting...waiting. I won't miss one day off a week. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Two, Feet, Long

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• My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Running, Stars

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• The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

  Kyle MacLachlan

  New York, Nice, Winter

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• I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

  Eminem

  White, Guy, Mexican

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• I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

  Christian Slater

  Fun, Thinking, Games

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

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• In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table.

  Chris Pine

  Coffee, Thinking, Two

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• I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Wish, Rooms

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

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• I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life for them. That doesn't happen every time, but those are the best.

  Rachel McAdams

  Book, Bed, Want

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• I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

  Elena Anaya

  Talking, Tables, Film

  "Elena Anaya On Baring It All". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

  Jane Birkin

  Fun, Cat, Israel

  "Jane Birkin's Birkin Sells For $163,000!" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 20, 2011.

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