Top 1200 Sitting Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

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

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

What you're getting on Twitter is me sitting on a bench, just with a lot less cuss words. Honestly.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

Leading up to a live event you need to do your homework and go to bed early. Sometimes it's very tempting to go out with everybody else, They're all going to a party or going out for a nice meal and you think 'oh well I'd like to go', but sometimes you think 'no, if I'm going to be sitting in front of a camera under a light in everybody's home tomorrow I don't want big bags under my eyes and not really know what I'm talking about'.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Sitting on public transport is an occasionally exasperating experience if you have the temerity to attempt travelling while female.

Typically, when you ask a financial adviser sitting with a couple: Do you treat the man and woman differently? They say, "No!"

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

The two circled around the back of the house, making sure that nobody saw them. Once inside, they found Patrick right where they had left him, sitting in front of Mark's computer. The only difference was that he was surrounded by bags of Doritos and cans of Mountain Dew. He looked up at them with wild eyes. You okay?" Courtney asked. I'm fantastic!" Patrick exclaimed. "This sugary drink is incredible!" Swell," Courtney remarked sarcastically. "He's wired on Dew.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.

Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from day one, they weren't happy. Someone, whoever made that flyer, must have digitally turned their frowns upside down. They wrote about death. About the evilness of men. About the destruction of-and I quote- "the greenish, bluish orb with wisps of white." Seriously, that's how they descibed it. They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.

I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.

I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.

The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it.

Not everybody that loves country music is 'sitting on a bar stool/feelin' like a durn fool.'

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

I mean, who cares about SpongeBob SquarePants? I'm sitting here with Wolverine! -random kid talking to Ari

It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

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

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

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

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.

I like riding for five or six hours, then sitting on the sofa staring at the TV. It's my normal.

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won't bring you anywhere in life.

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

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.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.