Sitting Down Quotes (page 18)

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• music
• couple
• now

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years. Alan Vega

• people
• military
• sometimes

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with. Rachel Corrie

• writing
• point
• coming

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. Robert B. Parker

• fun
• chance
• chances

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. Bernard Cornwell

• girlfriend
• people
• something

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

• downs
• down
• sit

After all is said and done, sit down. Bill Copeland

• occasional
• diplomats
• heads

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. Peter Ustinov

• writing
• writes
• sitting

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

• thinking
• understanding
• smart

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up. Sarah Palin

• work
• positive work
• hard

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. Carrie Underwood

• marvel
• job
• universe

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute. Rita Coolidge

• troubles
• keeps
• disappears

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. Calvin Coolidge

• friends
• friend
• downing

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. Theodore White

• courage
• enemy
• confidence

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. Desmond Tutu

• alone
• watch
• downing

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is. John Turturro