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Quotes About Sitting

as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
A pioneering figure in the past, the future was the president of the present. You are sitting. But the future wants your chair. She is demanding.
~ Victoria Chang
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
~ Scarlett Johansson
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams
~ Evan Esar
What she was retreating from was any profundity of feeling and therefore any commitment more intense than light church attendance and an interest in roses.... History is of course crammed with people like Mother, who are just sitting it out.
~ Penelope Lively
Estar sentado frente a alguien, con la nueva y vieja idea de que lo más natural sería estar juntos y que es totalmente incomprensible estar sentados así, de a dos, cada uno por su lado.
~ Peter Handke
But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind?
~ David Levithan
the foot of his chair.
~ Zane Grey
I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don't know why they'd decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.
~ Hugh Laurie
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
~ Hughes Mearns
The knight of the Way who thinks only of sitting quietly at home is not worthy to be called a knight.
~ Confucius
I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
~ Val Kilmer
How did he break the chair? Does he have a foul temper? Did he throw it?" "He broke it by sitting on it," Lillian said with a scowl. "Cousin Eustace is rather l-large boned," Evie admitted.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Eating organic for good health and spending your day sitting down using a wireless computer that is next to a WiFi router is a classic case of Yin & Yang.
~ Steven Magee
Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car? Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car, Jazz said. What? she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to. Shut up.
~ Rachel Caine
Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy.
~ Rachel Caine
This is what you Americans do all day, is it? Sit about confessing things. What a rotten influence you are!
~ Rachel Kadish
I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other.
~ Lauren Mayberry
we walked into the lab, Mrs. Yonkers was sitting on top of her desk, and her computer was on her chair. That was weird. You're supposed to sit on your chair with the computer on your desk. It was also weird that Mrs.
~ Dan Gutman
I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
~ Alice Cooper
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
~ John Ridley