“The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.” IfsWellsDecisionSittingBest ThingsGuts Author:Dylan Lauren
“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.” WellsDifferentPlayHomeHeroSittingSevenFinalsVersionsDesksVariation Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.” WellsSaidIdeasLightHouseWaitingSittingMeetingsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherQuakerLight Within Author:James Turrell
“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.” WellsLittlesWaterMorningSunBuildingSittingFingersBonesShadeCakeAfternoonPottersSketchingOld BuildingsChilled Author:Howard Pyle
“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.” WritingWellsSeaResearchSittingLettersAskingRewardsMarinePonderingTurtlesStanleySea Turtle Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles
“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.” ShouldWellsWorkTalkingAirOfficeSittingHeyChairsSecretaryTrashMama Author:Jim Croce
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes