Sit Quotes

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.