Seat Quotes

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.