As I sit here now, when I take off my shoe and I look down at my scar, I see beauty in it. I see all the hard work, all the sacrifices. I see the...

If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful.

My brain… cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’… I think that’s almost worse than death.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, ‘I want to write right now.’ It has to just kind of come out. It’s not something...

Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up.

I definitely don’t sit down every day and make a new song.

The other day I tried to design a finish line, but I didn’t know where to start. So I just sat there and drank Gatorade. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That’s one of their nicest qualities – their brute persistence.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down...

I get so many ideas for songs, but I’m so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like...

If someone said, ‘Sit down and write a ‘Community’ episode,’ I would be panicked.

What I do doesn’t sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don’t have a cool card, but I also don’t have thin skin.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they’ve fired missiles – because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for...

When she told me to sit down, I didn’t know where I stood with her. Ah, love—it’s like a chair. It’s always sitting, yet standing on its legs.

I don’t sit there and speculate. I’m not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

This leather chair belongs to me. I would let you sit in it, but you can’t sit in an idea.

I honestly if I get a vacation I’m gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that’s the one place I haven’t been for a very long time.

What you’ve done is done. You’ve got a goal you never reach, and it’s always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don’t want to sit down.

I’m shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won’t sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I’m certainly not going to go on somebody’s lawn. Could you...

You can’t wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Her and I, we have a two chairs and a table kind of love. You should pull up a feeling and have a seat.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes – I sit down, cut it off and make a script...

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

I’ve been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It’s a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That’s where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Two things I can’t stand – sitting and sleeping.

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you’re trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give...

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook – what I want the track to be about melodically – and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up,...

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

I believe in love, but I don’t sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

I used to sit in front of McDonald’s and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

You don’t need to sit on a throne before you have the chance to dream; you don’t have to feel fat meat in-between your molars to become a strategic dreamer. You can be a dreamer...

I don’t sit down and say I’m going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it’s O.K., but it’s of no account.

I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain – some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then...

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn’t need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he...