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Quotes About Sitting

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
~ Kate Adie
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
He sat in another season - spring time, maybe - beneath a separate sun whose rays ended at the periphery of her eyesight, her reality.
~ Joanne Greenberg
They sat in the upstairs living room, a place furnished, one way or another, from the stages of Dublin, so you were always sitting in character, you were just not sure which one.
~ Anne Enright
Yes. It is the witch's life, climbing the primordial climb, a dream within a dream, then sitting here holding a basket of fire.
~ Anne Sexton
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.
~ Eva Ibbotson
When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
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
It was the only time in American history a sitting president came under fire in combat.
~ Ron Chernow
You can't make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup." "Unless it's a Harris Hawk.
~ S. M. Stirling
His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures...It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.
~ Alice Steinbach
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
you could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down.
~ Edward Abbey
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
~ Anonymous
Well I'm sitting here thinkin' just how sharp I amI'm an under assistant West Coast promo man
~ Anonymous
He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.
~ Anonymous
they settled themselves on deeply uncomfortable chairs in the meeting room.
~ Anselm Audley
We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.
~ Sonny Mehta
Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.
~ Denise Austin
being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
~ Ford Madox Ford
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
~ Franz Kafka
I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine.
~ Ricky Gervais
Cassidy sat down next to me, her dress teasing me as it fluttered in the breeze.
~ Robyn Schneider
Freshmen spend in unfathomable sitting on their beds – heads against the wall or propped pillows, semistudying or not, listening to music, catching a little TV, sending e-mail messages while flipping through yesterday's student newspaper and talking about "you know, nothing," which means everything. Just plain being is pretty darn interesting in those first few months of stay-up-as-late-as-you-want independence.
~ Ron Suskind