Top 1200 Sitting Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't like concert-halls where everyone is sitting down and it's all very formal.

Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

I'm super active, so sitting on the couch and staring at the walls isn't ideal for me.

Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.

God has been kind to me, so I really should not be sitting and complaining.

There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.

Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

The idea that somebody out there is that eager to hear my music in advance can only be a good thing. But growing up, I always liked that system where "release day" was a big thing, and for bands I really liked, I'd know that date. It'd be on my calendar, and I'd go to the record store that day. Sitting down and listening to the record for the first time was a real event. I wish it was still that way, but that's not the way the world works any more.

Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

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

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

I don't think I'd know if I were sitting next to Charles Schulz on an airplane.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

I'm the only fighter to ever go to the White House and meet with a sitting president.

I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.

If there's a game that comes out, I've pretty much got it, played it, and it's sitting here in my room.

When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to do the very show you are doing, guys standing around, sitting around arguing with each other over sports, if you make a mistake that lights up like a flare in the middle of the night. You've just got to correct that or else they're going to say, 'Well, why do these dopes have that show? I can go out there and be just as good as them.'

I remember sitting in the stands at WrestleMania 30 thinking, 'I have to be a part of this one day.'

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

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

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

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

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.