Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no.

Henry L. Stimson

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Edward T. Hall

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

Kenneth Grahame

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

Jonathan Swift

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Elizabeth Vargas

Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Robert Anthony

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.

Sebastian Vettel

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.

Shiri Appleby

On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."

Penelope Keith

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Rachel Hunter

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

Queen Elizabeth II

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

James Richardson

I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.

Jonathan Franzen

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Pico Iyer

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

Pico Iyer

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Julian Green

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

Josh McDermitt

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

Karrie Webb

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

Leonard Cohen

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Gary Cole

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

Lyndon LaRouche

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

Gustave Flaubert

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Victoria Beckham

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

Rosa Parks

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

Robert Hunter

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Katy Perry

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

Tyler Perry

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.