“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.” HandsSilenceAudienceThousandSittingTwenties Book:The Mask of Apollo Source: The Mask of Apollo
“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
“Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.” WantCareActorsRoomsActingBeautyFiveSittingTwentiesTablesChainsFlamesChairsLinksRomeI CareTwenty FiveBeauty Of LifeAthensIbsenColiseumAcropolisTables And Chairs Author:Eleanora Duse
“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.” MindFirstsMomentsGoalBreakFiveMinutesWillingTenSittingTwentiesAimFinding YourselfFive MinutesGrindDaydreamingLoftyDriftingSitting DownUtilizingDaily GrindDrifting OffLofty Goals Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche
“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.” IfsKnowsMayEnergyKnow HowMeditationMinutesFlowerWalkingTenPerceptionMindfulnessSittingAngerTwentiesEmbraceCome UpFollowingBreathingTrue NatureWalking Meditation Author:Nhat Hanh
“I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.” ThinkingWellsTalkingStageCoupleJokesSittingTwentiesDollarsDesksBucksRetard Author:Larry David
“When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.” NeedsWholeBodyEyeFilmActorsSittingTwentiesCharisma Author:Alison Pill
“Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.” PeopleKnowsYearsStillsDarkSpaceSittingTwentiesScreensSquares Author:Steven Spielberg
“Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.” MindI CanBodyLanguageHoursWalksMinutesPagesSittingTwentiesGet UpDesks Author:Paul Auster
“Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.” YearsWellsImaginationBrokenSittingTwentiesLegsIronBubblesPsychiatrist Author:Ilona Andrews
“I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.” YearsSaidFeltStepsSawsStreetsMinesHusbandMarriedSittingTwentiesSevenLibraryHelloJustifiedExesSeven YearsEx Husband Book:The Collected Stories Source: The Collected Stories
“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.” MenChildrenSaidChristianMotherThousandSittingEuropeBuiltRootsTwentiesSlaveJewCoastJungleRabbitsPalacesMen WomenGood GodUnshakableFixationWeaselsMoorsRenegades Author:Dorothy Dunnett
“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.” FirstsChildrenBookLightSchoolTogetherTurnsChoicesGamesSoundVoiceMorningMinutesArmsFitOne DayMoonComputerPagesSittingMachinesTwentiesLibraryDinnerQuittingTalesHeyCooksYour ChildrenGiftedNoonLaundryCrooksLibrary BooksBeside YouSmall VoiceComputer Games Author:Richard Peck
“"I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide to elope to Las Vegas where Jared uses his powers to clean up at the poker tables and you guys buy a mansion in the Manzano Mountains with twenty-seven rooms and decide - because you're rich and all - to buy a new computer, can I have your iMac then?"... "Um, no, you're not getting my iMac." "Dang."” IfsThinkingSaidUseGuyNextRoomsRichMountainComputerSittingTwentiesTablesCleanSevenVegasLas VegasBrooklynMansionsImac Author:Darynda Jones
“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.” PeopleMenWorldCountryShowsTodayPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsFreedomLibertyDemocracySittingWeakFunctionTwentiesRegardWesternNotionStrongestVillageFascismWorld TodayPatronizingTrue Democracy Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!” WorldStillsBehindsMilitarySixSittingArmyTwentiesDivisionStrongestAlliesConcreteSteelValiantSitting Still Author:J. F. C. Fuller