“There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldTryingYearsBelieveKindMadeStillsCoursesWaitingMillionsGroupsProveSittingImportanceAgreeAround The WorldJust BeingSpectatorsParticipatingSmall Groups Author:Pete Seeger
“I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.” PeopleLooksKindWarTelevisionLimitsEatingBeatsJokesSittingCancerWarriorNot SureSatSurvivorTerritoryTopicsSoupCancer SurvivorRoommateWatching TelevisionNew TerritoryBeat Cancer Author:Amy Schumer
“People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.” PeopleTeacherSittingAngryDrawingShyClassroom Author:Matt Groening
“It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.” PeopleThinkingLittlesStillsHelpingDogEmotionalNeededMetsSittingCompanionShelterKill MeNeeded Help Author:Bob Harper
“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.” PeopleRoomsWalkingSittingTablesStrangerDinnerSweatTerrifiedSitting DownDinner Table Author:Bear Grylls
“I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMeanStarsDifferencesTvsApproachSittingRestaurantsUp To You Author:David Morse
“I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.” PeopleThinkingWantKindArtActorsStruggleSittingBe YouComplacencySitting AroundGrumbling Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.” PeopleYearsLooksKindMeanMadeMatterWholePastFacesActorsPowerfulFiveSubjectsSittingTwentiesPhotographDeeperDecadesFive YearsClothingsPortraitsSentimentalInventingTwenty FiveMorbidPicture Taking Book:Mao II Source: Mao II
“I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.” PeopleRealSometimesStoriesBodyWeekDyingDogSittingReal LifeEncountersWoundedCemeteryLife Story Author:Robert Crais
“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsStillsSometimesThreeTalkingWorstHabitRight NowBasketballSittingTunesRudeSitting Still Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Children have to fly on a separate plane, and people older than 60 have to fly on a separate plane also, because for some reason, after you get a little older, you forget that when you pull on the seat in front of you to get up from your seat that the person sitting in that seat actually feels something.” PeopleFeelsChildrenLittlesPersonsReasonForgetFrontsSittingGet UpPlanesSeats Author:Jay R. Ferguson
“I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.” PeopleLooksFilmNextSittingNot InterestedSitting AroundYour FavoriteOlder People Author:Denzel Washington
“I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.” PeopleWantTryingMadeSaidWould BePartySilenceSadnessDyingPromiseMetsSittingCelebrateFuneralSitting In Silence Author:Andrew W.K.
“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentShowsMotherHoursDarkRoomsFourFrontsTvsAmountSittingRadioMicrophonesTeresaDark Room Author:Wendy Williams
“Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingSometimesHomeCrySittingPainfulGood TimesHaving A Good TimeNot Happy Author:Whitney Houston
“I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing” PeopleThinkingWritingSongNextWonderfulMaterialsSourceSittingPolicePhonesLondonLike MeParksNext TimeWonderful Places Author:Ray Davies
“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” PeopleIfsFeelsIdeasRealWholeHomeStuffSeeingNormalSittingTradeBoxesBoringToysNew ThingsNew IdeasBoring Life Author:Alex Day
“Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.” PeopleWellsKindMayIdeasThreeViolenceSittingTablesDemocraticAll KindsThree ThingsGreat IdeaUmbrella Author:Gloria Steinem
“After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.” PeopleThinkingIdeasLastsStuffParentLossComedyMomConversationLosingSittingPreparedScaryHeavyEnlighteningGreatest GiftsYour MomStand Up ComedyYangSharing Ideas Author:Dane Cook
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” PeopleMenWantPainSufferingHouseGivenPleasureSittingFellowsCharitySelfishnessWoeFellow ManCorpsesMerrySitting Up Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenLittlesEnoughTogetherHonorSittingStandingVoteI Love HimLittle WomenTammy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money. I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.” PeopleBelieveCountryReasonUseGovernmentI BelieveChangedDemandSittingLogicBlameCongressConnectedJustifyFederal GovernmentBorrowingIdiotic Author:Wright Patman
“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.” PeopleWorldWayHomeNightSpeakCausesWaitingBlackHistoryGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsTaughtCallingSittingToughFolksInsightMannersSouthernDedicatedMamaDay And NightPorchOlder Women Author:Bell Hooks
“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.” PeopleLooksHateStuffDifferencesOpinionCreatingSittingDown AndShellsSitting DownFiascoDifferences Of Opinion Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.” PeopleKnowsEndsSittingThrones Author:George R. R. Martin
“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.” PeopleWayMayDifferentReasonTalkingParticularDependsInvolvedProjectsSittingDown AndIndependentScriptsFeaturesSitting Down Author:Jimmy Smits
“People made a big deal out of the fact this is the first time a sitting president has done a late-night show. We tried to have other presidents on, but President Bush went to bed every night at 9:00. And President Clinton always seemed to have other late-night plans.” PeopleFirstsMadeDoneFactsShowsBigsNightPresidentDealsPlansBedLateSittingFirst TimeClintonEvery NightBig DealPresident BushLate NightPresident Clinton Author:Jay Leno
“[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.” PeopleThinkingYearsAgeSittingOld AgeChairsSitting AroundRocking Chairs Author:Sarah Louise Delany
“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.” PeopleThinkingWritingHoursImaginationFantasyImpossibleSittingExcuseImaginaryMy ImaginationDaydreamingSitting Down Author:Patricia A. McKillip
“I'm projected as an ambulance chaser, but I'm more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come.... I have never fought a case where they didn't ask me to come. People have this picture like I'm sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. "You hear anything? Oh, let's run! It's Virginia today!"... Every victim calls us.... "Who put Sharpton in charge?" The victim!” PeopleKnowsRunningTodayNightAsksCasesBedSittingVictimAsk MeCall MeVirginiaAmbulanceSitting UpChasersTalkiesWalkie Talkies Author:Al Sharpton
“People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.” PeopleThinkingMeanSittingLegsChairsOver YouSeventiesBlanketSitting AroundDrooling Author:Don Rickles
“All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.” PeopleKindIdeasEndsSelfBigsDiesHouseWaitingMajorsSittingFatsFrighteningPublishingBiographiesSlapCompletionImpositionPublishing House Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.” PeopleTryingTwoTogetherGamesTalkingBoysShotsSittingBlindTwo ThingsSeatsMailBeside YouBlind People Author:Chick Hearn
“I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsPlayStuffFineSittingLyricists Author:John Darnielle
“I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.” PeopleCareSittingBeachRelaxI CareDoing Nothing Author:Jason Statham
“People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealityKidsTvsProjectsSittingExcitingScreensGutsHanging OutPersonal LifeToiletsSitting AroundWatching TvRomantic Life Author:Ben Affleck
“There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.” PeopleWayLittlesSometimesHardFilmMovingEnergyFunBitsLosesSceneLittle BitSittingSparesTrailersSpare TimeAlligators Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.” PeopleWholeFunnyTeachDogSittingWhole LifeTricksTricky Author:Mitch Hedberg
“There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.” PeopleWayWritingInspirationHappensWould BeWaitingPerfectPaySittingAdvantageProductivityProductiveRoutineSitting AroundPerfect ThingsSitting Around Waiting Author:Woody Allen
“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingStoriesUseActionTogetherSocialJusticeMy OwnClearGroupsMovementSittingSocial JusticeInstanceFinding YourselfActivistDiscoveringMaking ChangesMy Own LifeTextbooksLife StorySmall Groups Author:Gloria Steinem
“If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsI CanCountryPlayFeelingsSongStuffImagineFansFineSittingGladGermanyImagine ThatEngagingCatchingLyricists Author:John Darnielle
“Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.” PeopleKnowsStoriesSocialJusticeGroupsMovementSittingSocial JusticeDiscoveringLife StorySmall Groups Author:Gloria Steinem
“The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.” PeopleThinkingChildrenEffectsSittingGood ThingsActressesComicShyObservingParticipatingCopyingObservantBeing Shy Author:Rebel Wilson
“I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about how it's unfair that the artists didn't benefit while they're sitting on stuff that they "liberated," but that's another story for another time.” PeopleKnowsStoriesArtistTurnsStuffBenefitsSittingLiberationUnfairLiberatedAnother TimeSoapbox Author:Mike Royer
“Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.” PeopleLongHoursPerspectiveConversationSittingDown AndPrivilegeBrilliantSitting Down Author:Joe Rogan
“I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.” PeopleThinkingTwoHumorFunnyGuyHouseTvsSittingBedroomOther GuysSitting AroundOvensWatching TvBedroom House Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.” PeopleTwoBookValuesThreeReadingHoursWorryTvsSittingComicHotelComic BookWatching TvPiersHotel Lobby Author:Andy Andrews
“When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.” PeopleKnowsFeelingsSilenceHappenedStageSittingEdgesSeatsSilence IsSitting On The Edge Author:Kevin Spacey
“You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.” PeopleNeedsLittlesIdeasDoneCharacterSceneSittingBoringWork Done Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsSchoolStarsSituationTeamStageDramaTruth IsSittingLike MeFactoriesGoing OutDoing NothingArses Author:Amy Winehouse