Sit Quotes

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.