Sit Quotes

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.