Top 1200 Sitting Around Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

I'm not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I'd rather bash my head against a wall.

I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks.

For MLB players, sitting around aimlessly waiting to heal is never a good idea.

Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that's a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, 'Beautiful day. Let's play two!' And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me.

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.

People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.