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As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. — Gracie Allen

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. — Frank Herbert

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids. — Nicole Kidman

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down. — Zig Ziglar

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down. — Nelson Rockefeller

Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination — Sunday Adelaja

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. — Roland Joffe

There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country. — Pat Buchanan

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. — Wole Soyinka

You could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down. — Edward Abbey

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script. — Deepa Mehta

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. — Anthony Weiner

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony. — Johnny Carson

I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food. — Markie Post

Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing. — Lucinda Williams

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. — Malcolm Cowley

Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up.
"Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down. — Tiffany King

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object. — William Makepeace Thackeray

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself. — Valerie June

All the bogeymen together, sitting down to tea. — Laini Taylor

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield

I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down. — Peter Uihlein

I like sitting down and watching games. — Jurnee Smollett

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. — Robert Benchley

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down. — Cherie Lunghi

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. — Pat Ament

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down. — John Inverdale

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. — Woody Allen

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere. — Philip Pullman

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating. — George Eliot

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing. — Kristen Stewart

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. — Nick Cave

Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down? — Warren Zevon

I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place. — Rhett Akins

A boy is not a sitting-down animal. — Baden Powell De Aquino

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. — John Lydon

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

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. — Alan Furst

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.' — Martha Wainwright

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. — Eric Schmidt

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft. — Linda Ronstadt

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say ... — Sitting Bull

I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands. — Estella Warren

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. — Hanya Yanagihara

Instead of sitting down and waiting for miracles to come, is better to start planning your miracle. — Sunday Adelaja

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield

I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers — Josh Stern

I hope to begin a new plan ... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching. — Samuel Palmer

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. — Sara Sheridan

as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land. — Jerome K. Jerome

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. — Zooey Deschanel

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down ... — Phil Ochs

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. — Ayana Mathis

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation. — Joanne Whalley

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' — Douglas Adams

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals. — Tommy Lee

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. — Robert Hunter

Sorry," he said, his voice thick and gruff. "It's morning and you're sitting on me. That's a combination meant to bring any man down. — J. Lynn

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. — Etta James

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back. — Gray Davis

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

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep. — Robert Barry

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. — David Finch

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. — Dorothy Parker

When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time. — Marie Helvin

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music. — Justin Vernon

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?"
"She's loony," Spook said. — Brandon Sanderson

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. — Barbara Cartland

Fenwick, sitting down to — Laura Lippman

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. — Amy Sedaris

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. — Bear Grylls

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all. — Joseph Conrad

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods. — Kamala Harris

My gratitude towards fans has always been sitting itself deep down there in my heart. — Kim Hyun-joong

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better. — Thelonious Monk

Sitting here and waiting on her to calm down enough to tell me who I needed to go beat the shit out of for making her cry wasn't easy. — Abbi Glines

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. — Paul McCartney

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix. — Brian Keene

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

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work. — Sparky Anderson

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. — Mignon McLaughlin

The main thing about writing is ... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. — Ben Fountain

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. — Phillips Brooks

It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. — Hannah Kent

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die. — Robertson Davies

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with. — Chuck Ragan

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. — Donald Hall

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. — Duke Of Wellington

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. — Holly Valance

I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down. — Paul Reiser

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. — Aimee Mann

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories ... and that requires virtually no technology. — Steven Levitan

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan. — Fennel Hudson

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. — Dani Shapiro

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast. — Mads Mikkelsen