Sit Quotes

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.