Sits Quotes

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.