Best Sitting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”

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“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.”

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Author:Nancy McKeon

“The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.”

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Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”

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Author:Nelson A. Miles

“I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.”

Play Stage Sitting Theater Seats Junkie

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

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Author:Lucas Neff

“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?”

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Author:Rick Trevino

“I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

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Author:Elton John

“I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.”

Book Sitting Marketing

Author:Whitley Strieber

“I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."”

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Author:M. Scott Peck

“When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”

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Author:James Laughlin

“When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.”

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Author:Andrej Pejic

“This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.”

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Author:Jacques Pepin

“I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.”

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Author:Jared Padalecki

“If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.”

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Author:Jean Pigozzi

“The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

“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.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I've never been one for sitting on beaches.”

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Author:Piper Perabo

“President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.”

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Author:Anja Rubik

“I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.”

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Author:Emanuel Steward

“I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.”

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Author:Kiki Smith

“For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.”

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Author:Mark Strong

“There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

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Author:Peter S. Beagle

“The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.”

Sitting China Eggs Brooding Hens

Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.”

Long Sitting Permanent

Author:Sly Stone

“As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“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 wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.”

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Author:Donnie Wahlberg

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