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Quotes About Sitting

I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.
~ p g wodehouse
makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age. 'Dr. Marconi doesn't speak much English,' she said, sitting down beside him, 'and he asked me to fill out your admittance form.' She gave
~ Dan Brown
He sat on benches and tried to get in a spooky mood.
~ Daniel Handler
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
~ China Mieville
when she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.
~ Christina Stead
The last time Charles saw it, the crown was sitting atop his mother's coffin.
~ Christopher Andersen
Sentar-se no meio de uma fala seria lembrar que se tem corpo. Napoleão, que era psicólogo nas horas vagas, observou que se passa da tragédia à comédia pelo simples fato de se sentar.
~ Henri Bergson
They were sitting on the floor in the library. It was too hot for chairs.
~ Lev Grossman
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
~ Jasper Fforde
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.
~ James H. Austin
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
~ Robert Benchley
The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.
~ Guy Forget
I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.
~ Jimmy Barnes
You remember sitting, don't you?" Esme said, mocking. "Shhh!" Anton sniped. "I'm trying to figure this out." "Yes, sitting is very distracting," I said. "Getting blown up in this game definitely is distracting," he said. And when he noticed me rolling my eyes at him, he muttered. "Do you honestly think he'd set traps inside his own home base when the outside is so well guarded?" I asked.
~ Unknown
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
~ Paul Theroux
when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping
~ Pema Chodron
There I was sitting right in the middle of the finest hunting country in the world and I didn't even have a dog.
~ Wilson Rawls
Cromwell's imperious words to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
~ Winston S. Churchill
On siedzia? z sensem (bo czyta?), a ja bez sensu siedzia?em.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I spot the Roach and the Bomb, sitting in the shadows of the re-formed thrones. He is tossing grapes into her mouth and never missing, not once.
~ Holly Black
Nya sat outside in the shade of the house and ate.
~ Linda Sue Park
Libby can hear the whisper of every moment that this room has existed. Feel every breath of every person who has ever sat where she is sitting.
~ Lisa Jewell
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
~ Laurie Lee