Quotes about Sitting

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling

"A man's mind is won't to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
-Malcolm X

"They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, drinking coffee and enjoying the peace of the day."
-John Atkinson

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
-Charles F. Kettering

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."
-Charles F. Kettering

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."
-Clifford Stoll

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

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."
-Jules Renard

"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."
-John Cheever

"If you're in an outdoor event, for example let's say a soccer game, and the person next to you is smoking on a normal bleacher and if the wind is blowing in your direction, it's like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant. Now, if the distance is farther, obviously the secondhand smoke would diminish or the side effects would diminish."
-Tim O'connor

"Sometimes I'll take a pitch right there, but with him, if he gets a strike, he's coming back with that [nasty] slider of his, ... So I was sitting dead-red, and when I got the fastball, I capitalized on it. That was definitely the biggest home run I've ever hit. It was a very emotional home run."
-Bobby Kielty

"No sitting mayor and no sitting council member should adopt an ordinance that provides a competitive advantage to a competing business in an adjacent city."
-Patrick O'neill

"This allows multitasking by video operators so they can be more efficient instead of just sitting in front of a screen."
-David Reed

"It's kind of like being a fireman, and I've done it myself, so I understand what they go through. It's a lot of sitting around and then all of a sudden you get the call, 'Oh, you're on.' So it's my job, really, just to make sure that they're ready to go."
-Peggy Taphorn

"Going into the year, our goal was to beat what we did last year. We won 14 features last season. We're sitting at 19 now and we have two chances to get 20."
-Mark Dobmeier

"We should be sitting here at 11-3 right now, to tell you the truth. We've got Dorrell and Earl coming down. I know they're going to bring something for us."
-Bracey Wright

"He didn't want a whole bunch of people sitting around listening to him."
-David Demartini

"It is a stunning exchange, I will say, by both sides so early in this campaign. When the first punch was thrown, Nancy and the campaign decided not to take it sitting down."
-Brian Flaherty

"I think that's the advantage to us in selling lottery tickets. We're sitting here close to the Arkansas line and we have a lot of people that come into Oklahoma from other states."
-Dale Brown

"It's too big for her. It looked better when she was sitting down."
-Justin Childers

"We're all sitting around getting fat. Exercise is boring, so why not do what we like?"
-Sparkle Thomas

"That guy took a life that had just begun. Her daddy is not going to walk her down the aisle. She's not going to have babies. She's not going to get married. I mean, it's over for her, and this guy is sitting all cozy in a jail cell eating dinner right now and that's the reality of it."
-Linda Chiles

"We were nervous, and in fact, we were sitting there waiting, and my husband said, 'If I could, I would go and take her off of that thing."
-Grace Corrigan

"I don't think we'd be asking this question if we were talking about Miami. We wouldn't be talking about this if it was San Francisco, and it's sitting on a fault line."
-Jeanne Hurlbert