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“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

Writing Trying Art Important Matter Positive Thinking Art Is Sitting Important Things Sitting Down

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.”

Looks Children Long Might Eye Money Sitting Disappear Stores Supposed To Be Explanation Extras Suspicious Groceries Sitting Around Grocery Stores Snicket

Author:Daniel Handler

“Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me since I know way too much about my classmates already. So as far as I'm concerned, an extra moment of ignorance really is bliss. But according to the innermost thoughts of Stacia Miller sitting just two rows before me - Damen Auguste is totally smoking hot. Her best friend, Honor, completely agrees. So does Honor's boyfriend, Craig, but that's a whole other story”

Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

“As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.”

People Needs Roles Please Sitting Complexes Our Society Need You Complacent Sitting Around Jester

Author:Seth Godin

“When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.”

Looks Eye Felt Talking Knowing Mines Strange Sitting Hated His Eyes

Author:Jean Rhys

“What did you do?” “Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…” He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,” commented Lyall thoughtfully.”

Wells Sitting Tea Pot Useful Things

Author:Gail Carriger

“One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.”

Life Is Girl Waiting Mistake Findings Sitting Sitting Around Biggest Mistake Romantic Life Sitting Around Waiting

Author:Meg Cabot

“I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.”

Knows Feels Sitting Trapped

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“This isn't funny. She was almost killed.' 'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.' 'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.' 'I just need a name.”

Ifs Knows Needs Stills Names Waiting Talking Ready Sitting Angry

Author:Derek Landy

“I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.”

Source: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield

“Eve hugged her, hard. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “What happened to the old frosting?” Shane, sitting at the table, raised his hand. “Took one for the team.” “Jesus, you ate it? All of it?” “Nah.” He held up the bowl that was sitting in front of him. There was still about half a cup left. “Couldn’t finish it all.” Eve blinked and looked at Claire, who shrugged and said, “I always thought he was sweet.”

Said Stills Hard Hands Beautiful Jesus Left Half Happened Team Fronts Sweet Sitting Tables Raised Cups Bowls Claire Shane

Author:Rachel Caine

“I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?”

Said Courses Bits Dad Sitting Mum Wizards Sofas Hagrid

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.”

Said Next Sitting Disgusting Pigs Starving Benches Chuck Maze Runner Sitting On The Bench

Book:The Maze Runner Trilogy

Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy

“I know, baby. I feel the same way about you. Those words never convey what goes through my mind and heart every time I look up and see you sitting in my house. Funny thing is, I always thought my house was full and that there was nothing missing in my life. I had a job I loved. Family who loved me. Good friends to keep me sane. Everything a human could want. And then I met an infuriating, impossible man who added the one thing I didn’t know wasn’t there.” – Tory “Dirty socks on the floor?” – Acheron”

Knows Men Way Want Feels Mind Humans Looks Heart Jobs House Impossible One Thing Missing Baby Mets Sitting Dirty Look Up Sane Good Friend Heart And Mind Funny Things Sock Infuriating

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.”

World Stills Enough Problem Dream Night Memories Rooms Dying Cold Quiet Sitting Wake Up

Book:As I Wake

Source: As I Wake

“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”

Thinking Giving Body Running Natural Tears Limits Sitting Dry

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."”

Ifs Looks Said Different Moments Sound Water Air Missing Strange Quiet Sitting Window Swimming Drowning Underwater

Author:Lauren Oliver

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Beautiful Imagination Tree Sitting Garden

Book:Spellweaver

Source: Spellweaver

“Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.”

Moving Keys Bed Husband Sitting Fingers Edges Breathing Chests Tied Rosa Accordions Sitting On The Edge

Author:Markus Zusak

“As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.”

Looks Children Said Eye Girl Black Saws Havens Walking Eating Sitting Towns Blue Shoes Mediums Hats Tall Too Short Blue Eyes Papa Pears Black Hats

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”

Fun Hours Magic Cold Sitting Kingdoms Wet Magic Kingdom

Book:Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

“You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”

Made Play Three Sin Cases Son Findings Sitting Instruments Blind Settling My Son Within You Mice Unexplored Gloria Instruments Of God

Author:Abraham Verghese

“There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.”

Source: Complete Shorter Fiction

“You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark”

Long Night Games Fire Sitting Winter Hunger Tales Sitting Around Peeta Cozy Picnics Retelling Haymitch Winter Night

Author:Suzanne Collins

“(Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck sitting backstage somewhere or sitting in a front row, watching a performance her entire childhood. She thought that when her mom stopped performing she was relieved of those duties, but all I wanted to do was sing, ever since I was born, so she's always been backstage.”

Wanted Stars Born Growing Up Growing Childhood Fronts Duty Mom Sitting Performances My Mom Stuck Performing Grandmother Relieved Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Taylor Swift

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.”

“Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.”

Ifs Knows Wells Doe Said Two Wanted Three Sitting Okay Spells Stable Three Things Sitting Down Schizophrenia

Book:Third Grave Dead Ahead

Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead

“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”

Firsts Wells Together Difficult Five Minutes Sitting First Time Notion Get Up Five Minutes Skirts Sitting Down

Book:In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)

Source: In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)

“I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.”

World Writing Book Reading Grows Forget Growing Up Sitting Warm Awful Sat Honey Benches Great Book Buns

Author:Jo Walton

“Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.”

House Black Dog Please Office Sitting Kitchen Strongest Patches Pumpkin Fetch Hagrid Minerva

Author:J. K. Rowling

“These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.”

Ifs Heart Hands Sitting Evening Sunday Wet Mansfield Park Sunday Evening

Book:Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)

Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)

“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”

Speak Sitting Journalism Rude Rats Strain Textbooks Spaghetti

Book:Peeps

Source: Peeps

“I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway.”

Men Trying Wells May Said Done Problem Remember Lying Names Left Force Promise Sitting Nine Charm Hats Eighty Crushed I Promise Dickens Jem Jem Carstairs Clockwork Prince Sitting Up

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything.”

World Waiting Space Moral Gone Forever Records One Thing Authority Sitting Western Criminals Saved Civilized Say Anything Sitting Around Western World Limbo Moral Authority

Author:James A. Baldwin

“So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.”

Giving Two Steps Sitting Give Me Library Skinny Coke Thug

Author:Gary D. Schmidt

“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.”

Ifs Knows Said I Can Eye Courses Asks Imagine Sitting Asking Tables Tea Sugar Her Eyes Pouring Sitting Down Diana

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.”

Mother Father Feet Sitting Patient Cried Chamber Sitting Down Jamie Hens Hovering Like A Mother Happy To See You

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

Thinking Knows Art Feelings Imagination Imagine Modern Walking Pure Eating Highest Music Is Sitting Etc Composer Imagine That Schubert Modern Music

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Running Minutes Bears Eating Sitting Chocolate Swear Monkeys Chips Cookies Sitting Around One Minute Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies Eating Chocolate

Author:Michael Thomas Ford

“The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.”

Thinking World Beautiful Faces Heaven Space Perfect Watches Rich Dog Moon Sitting Grateful Sand Tonight Fifteen Sweetness Time And Space Pondering Perfect Beauty Moon Rise

Author:Mary Oliver

“Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.”

Way Giving Wells Littles Long I Can Dream Might Courses Rooms Effects Baby Terrible Sitting Wine Seats Take Me Infant Purple Long Way Positively Unbearable Barbarians Robes Velvet Arranging

Book:Shadow Heir

Source: Shadow Heir

“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.”

Knows Said Bigs Moving Purpose Games Rooms Race Stage Sitting Red Rain Decided Size Opera They Said Curtains Furniture Carpet Cycling Red Carpet Frisbee

Book:The Gun Seller

Source: The Gun Seller

“Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?”

Wanted Car Sitting Police Offended Kicking Caleb Police Cars

Book:Infamous: Chronicles of Nick

Source: Infamous: Chronicles of Nick

“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.”

Thinking Knows Men Mean Doe Earth Universe Stars Differences Sitting Empty Endless Awake Emptiness Terrace

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”

Kind Happens Waiting Worst Sitting Torture Waiting For Something Sitting And Waiting

Author:Sara Zarr

“A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.”

Mind Body Prayer Half Sitting Kneeling

Book:Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”

Dream Happens Law Mother Sitting Wake Up Tables Dinner Thank God Twisted Moses In-laws My Future Underwear Dinner Table Mother In Law

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.”

Forever Mystery Sitting

Author:Daniel Handler

“But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.”

People Ifs Men Way Real Lying Worst Talent Goes On Waste Sitting Lied Unforgivable Real Talent You Lied

Book:Women

Source: Women