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Quotes About Sitting

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
~ Woodrow Wilson
We sit as a practice for how we will act throughout the day. Mindfulness, however, involves more than sitting. It is moment by moment non-clinging to ego. It is the simplicity that results when we experience reality without the clutter produced by the decorative arts of ego.
~ David Richo
Wade, aren't wingbacks a little much?" "Not considering how much time you spend sitting at your kitchen table. And face it, honey, this may scream 'formal,' but it's really whispering 'kitchen.
~ Jay Quinn
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
~ Jeff Bridges
Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."
~ Jeff Cesario
I'd finally healed enough from the aforementioned buttock injury that sitting was no longer painful, so I was enjoying the experience as much as possible. You don't realize how many times you're required to sit in any given day until you've been stabbed in the rear. And because injuries to that particular region are inherently hilarious, nobody gives you any sympathy. It's a lose-lose situation all around.
~ Jeff Strand
Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
It's not fun if you're sitting on the bench and aren't playing during Christmas. Damn, dude, I could've been watching this at home with my family. As long as you get some camera action on Christmas time, it's OK.
~ Baron Davis
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
~ Phil Jackson
I sit on the end of the bed, trying to look as nonlethal as an extra from Night of the Living Dead can.
~ Richard Kadrey
people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.
~ Robert B. Parker
The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had just composed it himself, so he was very taken up with it, and would not pay proper attention to Mole or anything else.
~ Kenneth Grahame
lili lili birdbath sitting on a dirtpath minnow sat on the rim and drank slipped and in the water she sank
~ Khaled Hosseini
Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.
~ Leo Gordon
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Until these interviews, it had been a theoretical question—an abstraction, not grounded in the facts of the investigation. But now there was evidence to make the issue real: Could Mueller—could any federal prosecutor—indict a sitting president of the United States?
~ Jeffrey Toobin
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
~ John Bercow
I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.
~ Frank Thomas
If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.
~ Rory Bremner
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
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
~ Robert Charles Benchley
So you can, girl, if you use your ears. I only wanted you to be comfortable. You look so durned uncomfortable, standing there. Well, I'LL sit anyway. Norman accordingly sat down in the very place John Meredith had once sat. The contrast was so ludicrous that Rosemary was afraid she would go off into a peal of hysterical laughter over it. Norman cast his hat aside, placed his huge, red hands on his knees, and looked up at her with his eyes a-twinkle. Come, girl, don't be so stiff
~ L.M. Montgomery