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Quotes About Sitting

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
~ H. G. Wells
Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes
~ Otis Redding
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sitting around fools increases your tolerance
~ Yash Gupta
Vika sat next to me, chewing on her fingernails. She chewed methodically, not an anxious person with a nervous habit but a butcher sharpening his knives.
~ David Benioff
Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.
~ David Hinton
I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.
~ Stanley Spencer
Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)
~ Eileen Granfors
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
~ Jules Renard
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
There was Barbra, sitting among all her objects, all of the things she loved best in the world; a tableau of capitalism.
~ Jami Attenberg
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you
~ E.E. Cummings
When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.
~ Tim Kaine
The time that I spent out of camp, I made sure when I sat out that I was in tip-top condition.
~ Charles Woodson
I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.
~ Hulk Hogan
After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can.
~ Twinkle Khanna
You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.
~ Patty Hearst
If you're sitting for more of the majority of the game and you really don't get a lot of touches, maybe every once in a while your confidence and your rhythm is probably out of sync.
~ George Hill
He sat. The white cat still contemplated him with large, moist eyes.
~ Richard Wright
Percy, Grover said, the gods really don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it.
~ Rick Riordan
Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She
~ Katherine Dunn