Top 1200 Sitting Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Having L.G.B.T. people sitting in the room while decisions are being made, and sitting there as peers, will shift the conversation.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

As far as sitting down and watching a sports event, that's just not part of my day or part of my night.

Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you've got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you're sitting there and thinking: 'what's in the press, what's in the fridge?'

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of who our character is.

There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on... and I'm sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, 'Hey, it's that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls... he's listening to his own music. What a jerk!'

I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands.

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

I grew up with a respect for sitting down and breaking bread with my family and loved ones, so I always try to make great memories for my kids.

It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.

In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

The news of Mubarak stepping down came as I was sitting in my Jordanian home away from home.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

'Jingle Belle' spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.

People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent." That makes me just die inside.

Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.