Sitting Around Quotes

#1. You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

Allen Drury

#2. You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

Al Pacino

#3. The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Tom Wujec

#4. The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

Norman Rockwell

#5. I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was way back in December of 1964, and there's a little bit in the pilot that was used in the first season where Will Robinson is sitting around some bad foam rubber rock playing and singing 'Greensleeves.'

Bill Mumy

#6. We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn't sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Chuck Close

#8. Game creators aren't necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven't given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.

Anita Sarkeesian

#9. They don't want an educated populace capable of critical thought, sitting around the kitchen table realizing how badly they're getting fucked!

George Carlin

#10. cause sitting around moping over a nigga ain't never got a bitch nowhere.

N. Carmouche

#11. I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Emmylou Harris

#12. I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

Eric Stoltz

#13. A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

David Berg

#14. I figure it's better to make a decision and do something rather than just sitting around thinking about it forever. Then at least I'll be moving.

Amy Reed

#15. The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

Caitlin Rose

#16. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

Harlan Coben

#17. I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

Julia Roberts

#18. And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Stephen King

#19. So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.

Anthony Liccione

#20. When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#21. This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Renny Harlin

#22. I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

#23. She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

Cynthia Weil

#24. While some of us might be sitting around thinking "Nobody cares about me!", our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift - and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.

Giulia Enders

#25. Stop sitting around, get off your ass and help me already!

Inuyasha

#26. If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.

Douglas Alexander

#27. I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

Meghan Daum

#28. Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

Lemony Snicket

#29. The world doesn't change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can't control fate, but I'm sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.

Caroline George

#30. My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.

Lesley Manville

#31. I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down ... ' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

Wes Borland

#32. I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Jake M. Johnson

#33. If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

Ralph Reese

#34. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

Jack LaLanne

#35. I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

Ed Speleers

#36. If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Gwen Ifill

#37. It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

Nancy Garden

#38. [On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

Sarah Louise Delany

#39. I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

Katie McGrath

#40. But while you're sitting around pining and waiting and wondering and hoping that this perfect love happens, lots of guys and lots of dates and lots of kisses are passing you by.

Lauren Morrill

#41. I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

Felicia Day

#42. John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

Jack Kerouac

#43. I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Kurt Cobain

#44. People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

Don Rickles

#45. Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

Jai Courtney

#46. If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Angelina Jolie

#47. Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

Oliver Reed

#48. So are you doing anything for your anniversary? I mean other than sitting around your backyard with a bottle of wine moping over lost love."

Since those were pretty much my plans, I said,"No. I'm going to hire a masseur, like you suggested."
After that, there was no turning back.

Marshall Thornton

#49. I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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

Richard Branson

#51. I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

Tony McCoy

#52. I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting ... around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charlie Daniels

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

Til Schweiger

#54. You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

Laura Bush

#55. If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward

Oprah Winfrey

#56. I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life.

Zach Braff

#57. The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on ... does that happen today?

David Gilmour

#58. I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

James D. Sass

#59. People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Malcolm Gladwell

#60. Death ray?" scoffed Victor. "Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. 'Oh you're an inventor? Have you made a death ray yet?' 'How's the inventing going? What's your death ray like?' I'm sick of it.

Dennis Liggio

#61. You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Peter Coyote

#62. Don't spend your days sitting around waiting for something to happen. Get outside and make it happen!Live like a warrior, be at one with nature, fearless in the moment....because this moment will never happen again so don't waste it!

Karen Gibbs

#63. It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

Eric Dickerson

#64. Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

Niall Ferguson

#65. If you spend too much time dreaming, you'll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there's a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.

Miranda Kenneally

#66. Our production manager, Rebecca, sews outfits for her cat Jack. I'm not sure why. I guess she was just sitting around one day and thought, "Fuck this shit, I'm forty and single, time Jack had a Peter Pan costume.

David Thorne

#67. I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

J. D. Souther

#68. Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Bruce Springsteen

#69. It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#70. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But so do you, so don't judge.

Andy Weir

#71. What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

Woody Allen

#72. Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

Jennie Garth

#73. Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#74. I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Rickie Lee Jones

#75. Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#76. This is about as simple as games get. There isn't even the paltriest context for what you're doing; you're not exacting revenge on limbless pigs or feeding your pet bitch-lizard. You're a ninja, fruit is flying up in front of you, and fuck fruit. Sitting around all smug on trees and in pies.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#77. Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Kristin Hannah

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

Amy Waldman

#79. I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

Laura Benanti

#80. There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

Michael Lewis

#81. There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

Gary L. Francione

#82. And sitting around the table on the fine-quality chairs and sofas were Magnus Bane, Jem Carstairs, Catarina Loss, and Clary,

Cassandra Clare

#83. There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.

Joaquin Phoenix

#84. Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

Yanni

#85. I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.

David Carson

#86. I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

Willie Geist

#87. I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

Robert Bateman

#88. I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

George C. Marshall

#89. As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Seth Godin

#90. Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ. Let us on earth be as the elders are in heaven, sitting around the throne. May Christ be the object of our thoughts, the centre of our lives.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#91. I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Tamara Ecclestone

#92. The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

Rodney Atkins

#93. I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

Victor Garber

#94. I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Michael Jackson

#95. My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

Trent Reznor

#96. Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Frederick Lenz

#97. When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

Melanie Gideon

#98. I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

Phil Keoghan

#99. I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#100. I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

Damon Lindelof