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.

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...

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.

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...

I’m not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That’s my character.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn’t my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

In my family, we can’t just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I...

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That’s how it comes to me, my train of thought. It’s like getting dressed – I don’t have to sit...

The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don’t sit! Many people may be standing; but...

I was never meant to sit at home.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

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.

If you don’t see the images on a screen because people block your view, it is easier to adjust your sitting position than to call for an adjustment of the screen! You need to change...

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I don’t sit under the tattoo gun unless I’m sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

I’d like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

What should be standing in the shoes of passion, and be walking on the plans of action is sitting in the ink on the papper. Why? Because of the fear to start.

I don’t card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don’t edit.

I’ve never missed a flight. And I don’t see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a...

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.