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Quotes About Sitting

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
~ George R. Kirkpatrick
A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.
~ George R.R. Martin
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
~ Ogden Nash
Life. In all its mundane majesty. And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows…whether that was in actuality, or metaphorically
~ J.R. Ward
Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?
~ Jack Kerouac
Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
~ Erin Morgenstern
But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car. If this was fate, she was buying.
~ Tara Janzen
We sat at that table, neither able to comfort the other, her remembering being a bystander to my mother's suffering and me suffering because I was denied the experience.
~ Tayari Jones
I've searched for the path to God all my life— I know you have— —and now I've found it and I can't believe it. It feels like I'm sitting here, writing this to myself. You are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders. Feds sit on their derrières and peruse their dossiers.
~ Nelson DeMille
And as the sun set behind far distant knolls, They sat roasting marshmallows over the coals. As the embers went out, they felt tired and dozy, So they
~ Chris Van Dusen
food was cooked, they sat at the rough-hewn tables the dwarves
~ Christopher Paolini
You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?
~ Cassandra Clare
It was my fault. We were all sitting squashed up on the sofa on Friday night watching Coronation Street, the second episode of the evening. Well, none of us were actually watching. Pixie was squatting on the arm of the sofa rubbing tomato sauce round her mouth, telling us over and over again that she was wearing lipstick like Mummy. My littlest sister, Pixie, could win the world record for repetition. She's three and talks all the time, though most of what she says is nonsense.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.
~ Chris Pine
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
~ Mason Cooley
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
~ Steve Lacy
He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'
~ Jack Hemingway
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Where I was living, there was a backyard, and we had a lot of neighbors with cats. These cats used to just sit on the wall, and one day I just turned around and there was a cat sitting there.
~ Emma Corrin
She sat down next to him, took one of his cigarettes, listened to his apologies. He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.
~ Nick Hornby
Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating. Park benches are irritating to you in some moods. Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.
~ Nora Roberts
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~ Nora Roberts
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
~ Virginia Woolf