Best Sitting Down Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You won't want to be standing when you hear what I have to say. For that matter, I bloody well don't want to be standing myself.”

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Book:New Spring

Source: New Spring

“You cannot criticise a man who is doing something while sitting down.”

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Author:Don Santo

“Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.”

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Book:British Bulldog

Source: British Bulldog

“A sofa will give you comfort, but a chair will give you style.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“I beat them while sitting down. Now that I am standing up, where are they?”

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Author:Don Santo

“There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them... ("Thirty-Three Abominations")”

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Book:Silver Age of Russian Culture

Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture

“Never trust any thought arrived at sitting down.”

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Author:Henry David Thoreau

“In reality, no human being, with the right mindset can ever allow someone to slap them while sitting idle.”

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Book:Resistance To Intolerance

Source: Resistance To Intolerance

“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.”

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Author:Gary Larson

“I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.”

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Author:Holly Valance

“I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.”

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Author:Frank Herbert

“All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.”

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Author:George Gershwin

“If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.”

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Author:Dave Gibbons

“I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'”

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Author:Martha Wainwright

“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.”

“People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.”

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Author:Linda Evangelista

“I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.”

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Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."”

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Author:Gracie Allen

“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

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Book:The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

Source: The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

“Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.”

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Author:Jose Saramago

“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”

“The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.”

“Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'”

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Author:Jim Cymbala

“The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long.”

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Author:Phil Robertson

“We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.”

“I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.”

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Author:Bear Grylls

“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.”

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Author:Zella Day

“I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent." That makes me just die inside.”

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Author:Nina Conti

“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.”

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Author:Graham King

“I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.”

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Author:Jimmy Smits

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”

“You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.”

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Author:Duke of Wellington

“In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.”

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Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

“I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.”

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Author:Patricia A. McKillip

“Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.”

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Author:Robert Hunter

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.”

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Author:Homaro Cantu

“I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

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