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“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.”

Way War Sometimes Song Stars Imagine Scene Music Is Sitting Developing Sitting Around

Author:Ryan Adams

“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”

Heart My Heart Sitting Skins Rate Appearance Surface Tiny Crush Necks Bubbles Delicious Foreheads Heart Rate

Author:LIZ

“Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.”

Looks Sitting Clock Idle

Author:Bill Gates

“A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.”

Body Fighting Perfect Seeing Couple Sitting Athlete Aids Viruses Visualization

Author:Arthur Ashe

“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”

Wells Littles Water Morning Sun Building Sitting Fingers Bones Shade Cake Afternoon Potters Sketching Old Buildings Chilled

Author:Howard Pyle

“I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.”

Years Tvs Ten Sitting Chairs Seventies Watching Tv

Author:Janis Joplin

“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”

Sitting Fellows Critics Remarks

Book:The wind in the willows

Source: The wind in the willows

“On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.”

Done Seems Happens One Day Sitting Flow Series Things Happen Flats Canvas Deaf Seeming Tiresome

Book:Sickert: Paintings and Drawings

Source: Sickert: Paintings and Drawings

“A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.”

Forever Circumstances Messages Sitting Method Bottles Delivery Intriguing Enigmatic Message In A Bottle

Author:Bill Gothard

“I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.”

Ifs Book Would Be Kids Reading Sitting My Family Corners Bars Funeral Procedures Unnoticed Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Neil Gaiman

“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.”

“Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.”

People Feels Trying Art Today Enemy Saws Standards Sitting Productions Branches Tragic Combat Best Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”

“Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.”

People Feels Has Beens Made Whole Next Lost Millions Five Design Sitting Towns Details Screens Make Sense Cute Hotel Homeless Downtown Sweating Swept Away

Author:Cameron Sinclair

“I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.”

Ifs Feels Matter Beautiful Games Football Sitting Saturday Find Me Football Game

Author:Howard Roberts

“So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.”

Men Way Trying Years Looks Stories Figures Sitting Clubs Bars Old Man Here I Am Stools

Author:Buddy Guy

“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”

Thinking Knows Should Running Life Is Dies Chance Company Creativity Our Lives Team Sitting Golf Chosen Excellent Damn Japan Worth It Sailing Playing Golf Monasteries Damn Good

Author:Steve Jobs

“I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.”

Games Happened Sitting Exciting Buddy Ribs

Author:Curt Gowdy

“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”

Mother House Wife Crazy Sitting Madness Driving Sitting Around Drive Me Crazy Wives And Mothers

Author:Patsy Cline

“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Dream Tree Wind Quiet Sitting Tragedy Spread Hearing Spots Leafs Umbrella Almonds Jamaicans Seashore

Book:My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Writing Wells Sea Research Sitting Letters Asking Rewards Marine Pondering Turtles Stanley Sea Turtle

Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

“When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.”

Thinking Hours Feet Eating Sitting Drinking Miles Flying Flight Diets Aviation Nuts Peanuts Pilots And Flying Pepsi

Author:David Letterman

“Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."”

Ifs Said Ideas Ends Done Might Spiritual Next Energy Sitting Tables Busy Agreement Display Impressed Next Day Pardon Vacuums Things Done Countrymen Getting Things Done Camouflage

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.”

Men I Can Dies Reading Waiting Proud Mets Sitting Graves My Time Find Me Prominent Epitaph Gravestone

Author:Will Rogers

“When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.”

Needs President Challenges Information Sitting Population Candidates Coverage

Author:Walter Cronkite

“We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.”

Men Persons Law Business Sitting Sells Prosperity Selling Buying Bags Traps Rats Cages Speculation Buckets Brokers Jugs Buying Something

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Problem Nations Interest Business Pay Attention Economic Sitting Credit Receiving World History Economic Problems

Author:Will Rogers

“An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.”

Forever Teacher Meditation Buddhism Sitting Spots Enlightened Halls Meditating Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”

Way Years Motivational Action Alive Risk Fronts Television Sitting Deny Inaction Taking Action Four Agreements Living Fully

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.”

Evil Sitting Misogyny Shelves Evil Women You Got Me

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.”

Eye Work Sitting Clock Cages

Author:Ray Davies

“Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.”

Should Wells Work Talking Air Office Sitting Hey Chairs Secretary Trash Mama

Author:Jim Croce

“Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.”

Way Years Made Said Millions Fire Groups Minutes Keys Needed Beats Humorous Sitting Discovery Years Ago Stones Rate Woods Hey Heat Lightning Dinosaurs Sitting Around Cavemen Insurance Rate

Author:Dave Barry

“You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.”

Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

“In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Important Action Difficult Possibility Ought Sitting Organization Discussion Not Sure Fence One Direction Which Way To Go

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Way Should Know How Shots Sitting Standing Down And Dresses Scared Explanation Modeling Input Sitting Down Mindless

Author:Linda Evangelista

“Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.”

Feelings Turns Worry Sitting Sorry Pushing Mma Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself Pushing On Keep Positive

Author:Conor McGregor

“I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.”

Persons Turns Stuff Terrible Clothes Sitting Drinking Bars Sitting Around Pints Stuff I Like

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.”

Ifs Able Beautiful Huge Listening Sitting Window Small Things Make You Happy Beautiful Music Beautiful Picture

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.”

Thinking Way Giving Attention Records Sitting Driving Traffic Listening To Music Good Way

Author:Mikal Cronin

“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.”

Thinking Writing Singing Sitting Guts Sitting Down Therapeutic

Author:Dave Grohl

“My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.”

Thinking Together Waiting Worst Bed Sitting Phones Smoking Cigarette Phone Calls

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.”

People Individual Audience Stage Sitting Edges Blow Hopefully Intimacy Stopping Connecting Spectacular

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?”

Want Car Sitting Filled Smoke Restaurants Regulation Controversial Public Health

Author:Sarah Wollaston

“I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.”

Ifs Want Three Opportunity Wish Church Sweet Succeed Sitting Driving Demon Hospitals Phony Synagogue Opportunity Knocks Maternity Baloney Opportunity Knocking Short And Sweet

Author:Charles Montgomery

“In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.”

Heart Long Dream Together Jesus Saws Speech Laughter Sitting Forests Ran Laughed Brooks Sitting Together

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.”

Done News Sitting Studios Copies Microphones

Author:Ed Bradley

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