Top 100 Sit Quotes
#1. I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.
Andy Roddick
#2. Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.
Amy Johnson
#3. Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.
Sara Sheridan
#4. Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.
Allen West
#5. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?
Richard Meltzer
#6. I suppose you'll want to see the aliens now," he said. "Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Douglas Adams
#7. He's too damn tall. I'd have to sit in his lap or get a step stool to kiss him
anywhere near his face.Heh, there are always places south of the border to kiss. Don't need to be tall to reach those.
Jennifer James
#8. Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt.
Alyson Foster
#9. To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
Shiloh Fernandez
#10. It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.
David Benioff
#11. My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.
Jason Aldean
#12. I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#13. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.
Soseki Natsume
#14. It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.
James Thurber
#15. One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
Bobby Flay
#16. I've been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill
I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair
But somehow I still get the chills
Owl City
#17. Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
James Woods
#18. The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
Caitlin Moran
#19. The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.
Jack Kerouac
#20. Let's sit here in hard truth and easy beauty, in the tensions of the Now and the Not Yet of the Kingdom of God, and let us discover how we can disagree beautifully.
Sarah Bessey
#21. Concentration is not to try hard to watch something ... Concentration means freedom ... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#22. You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.
Doug Stanhope
#23. Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.
Cathy Lamb
#24. The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again.
Akshay Vasu
#25. Then she was seated, in a chair made for sitting, and sit in it she did, like a person seated in a chair made for sitting.
Rachel Kelso
#26. The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
Chris Cornell
#27. Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.
Jack McDevitt
#28. One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.
John Wooden
#29. It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.
Gerry Beckley
#30. You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.
Joyce Banda
#31. I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem. Sometimes you get these action sequences that you read and go, 'Oh my God, this is huge, how do I do it?' and I go, 'Just a step at a time. Sit down and plot each piece of it out.'
Michelle MacLaren
#32. The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government.
James Madison
#33. It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.
Goran Ivanisevic
#34. Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
Ralph Neas
#35. I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
Gale Anne Hurd
#36. Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Margaret McMullan
#37. Jay was attacked with peculiar venom. Near his New York home, the walls of a building were defaced with the gigantic words, 'Damn John Jay. Damn everyone that won't damn John Jay. Damn everyone that won't put up lights in the windows and sit up all night damning John Jay.
Ron Chernow
#38. Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.
Michael Covel
#39. Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
Chris Cleave
#40. I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny Boyle
#41. Water!' cried Marie.
'Vinegar!' recommended the bell-boy.
'Eu-de-Cologne!' said Bill.
'Pepper!' said Lord Tidmouth.
Mary had another suggestion.
'Give her air!'
So had the bell-boy.
'Slap her hands!'
Lord Tidmouth went further.
'Sit on her head!' he advised.
P.G. Wodehouse
#42. When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#43. Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.
Marc Maron
#44. I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
Eric Van Lustbader
#45. Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul D. Alinsky
#46. I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.
Dustin Diamond
#47. Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
Jeff Mangum
#48. On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.
X.J. Kennedy
#49. I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.
Karen Lord
#50. Tell Crabby Abby he's going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island, Astrid said, catching her ball.
Jennifer Donnelly
#51. My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working day, then we go to our local health club for a swim and to sit by the pool and read for a while.
Jacqueline Winspear
#52. To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
John Glenn
#53. I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.
Thomas S. Monson
#54. You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.
Gichin Funakoshi
#55. The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.
William James
#56. Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin
Lorrie Moore
#57. There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
#58. Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub - and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but ... he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike.
Frances Hardinge
#59. It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
Wallace Stegner
#60. A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ben Jonson
#61. I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S. Truman
#62. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody ... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
Mother Teresa
#63. I believed in my heart that despite politics, the United States would always do the right thing. My mind believed different, so I had made it sit quietly in the corner.
Patrick Thomas
#64. When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.
Steven Wright
#65. Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
William Carlos Williams
#66. I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.
Rumi
#67. And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#68. The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it
Louis De Bernieres
#69. Awaken your senses by sitting in nature, the earth aligns the soul of those of sit.
Nikki Rowe
#70. Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.
Kevin Bleyer
#71. I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems.
Michael Che
#72. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.
J.M. Darhower
#73. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.
D.S. Luca
#74. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
Kristin Cashore
#75. How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
Hannah More
#76. There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.
Christopher Monckton
#77. My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.
Sonakshi Sinha
#79. Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.
Michael Gambon
#80. Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
Max Aitken
#81. Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#82. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.
Shane Koyczan
#83. If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.
Bill Lipschutz
#84. When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.
Hillary Clinton
#85. I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
Tatiana Maslany
#86. A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
George Meredith
#87. The prophet Micah preached to his downtrodden people: Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen [true, not to be minimized], I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. (7:8 NIV)
Louie Giglio
#88. The difference between men and women is this
if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.
Deb Baker
#89. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#90. I'm good when I'm alone. I'm comfortable when I'm alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.
Johnny Weir
#91. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.
Ernessa T. Carter
#92. I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.
Steven Morrissey
#93. When, in the immediate postwar era, someone at Chrysler had designed a smaller, low-slung car, K. T. Keller, the company's top executive, had mocked it. "Chrysler builds cars to sit in," he said, "not to piss over.
David Halberstam
#94. There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
Britt Daniel
#95. People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
Chad Hurley
#96. She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.
Margaret Mitchell
#97. If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.
Marco Pierre White
#98. Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.
Deb Caletti
#99. It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.
Domhnall Gleeson
#100. We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a solitary pastime. We sit within another's person.
Brenda Walker
