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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. -- Bill Watterson
I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time. -- Gisele Bundchen
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -- Leonardo da Vinci
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. -- William Julius Wilson
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. -- J. D. Salinger
I sat in a garage and invented the future. -- Steve Jobs
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. -- e. e. cummings
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. -- Dodie Smith
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly. -- Jay-Z
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! -- Oliver Cromwell
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. -- George H. W. Bush
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. -- Charles Bukowski
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark. -- Raymond Carver
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. -- Paula Poundstone
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase. -- A. S. Byatt
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter. -- Jodie Foster
We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs -- Dean Cavanagh
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. -- Adi Shankara
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame -- Torquato Tasso
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. -- John Milton
I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs -- Bob Marley
That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies. -- Susanna Kearsley
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. -- Loretta Lynn
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. -- Sam Ewing
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling. -- Elvis Costello
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. -- Jim Henson
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. -- Bill Gates
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. -- Stevie Nicks
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God. -- Rick Warren
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. -- Prince Andrew
In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way. -- Jane Pauley
The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals. -- Skrillex
My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life. -- Jenna Morasca
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it. -- Gordon Ramsay
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. -- Julian Castro
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. -- Mark Zuckerberg
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy. -- Brad Pitt
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences. -- Howard Stringer
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook. -- Tony Danza
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside. -- Anthony Bourdain
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well. -- Justin Zackham
The SAT is a scam. -- John Katzman
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. -- Edward Young
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. -- James Russell Lowell
She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart. -- Margaret Landon
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves. -- Franz Kafka
Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on. -- Paul Simon
he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls... -- Stephen King
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. -- Francesca Annis
Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam. -- Robert Sternberg
Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. -- Benny Goodman
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still. -- Horace
Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me. -- Mo Rocca
I sat there with everything - and I had nothing. -- David Millar
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. -- Jasper Fforde
I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness -- Bobby Gould
I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey. -- Jerry Garcia
Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. -- Helen Hodgman
Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. -- Ice Cube
I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side. -- Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students. -- John Katzman
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished. -- Joseph Prince
I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. -- Bill Haley
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. -- William Shakespeare
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. -- Sarah Brown
I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there. -- James Brolin
My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle. -- Bob Monkhouse
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. -- Douglas Adams
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain -- Nobuhiro Watsuki
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. -- Diane Cilento
I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket. -- Jennifer Niven
Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping? -- Jedediah Berry
I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool. -- Waylon Jennings
Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet. -- Charles Spurgeon
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. -- Alexander Fleming
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. -- David Lloyd George
There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I. -- Manning Marable
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. -- Edmund Spenser
I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do. -- Edwina Gateley
I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. -- Christopher Atkins
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried. -- Lesley Visser
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. -- Frank Herbert
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. -- Leslie Fiedler
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. -- Stephen Breyer
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section. -- George Carlin
The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization. -- Dave Barry
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous. -- Jennifer Aniston
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. -- Tori Amos
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window, -- Deborah Moggach
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window. -- Deborah Moggach
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. -- Hart Crane
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. -- Donald Barthelme
I scored 1.1 on my SAT, And still push a whip with a right and left AC. -- Redman
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. -- Emily Carr
Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real. -- Shannon Kopp
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. -- Stephen King
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience. -- Blair Underwood
I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. -- John Milton
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. -- Tanith Lee
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. -- Bob Costas
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy! -- Evangeline Lilly
I'm quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book. -- Jamie Dornan
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other. -- Patrick Hennessey
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! -- Aesop
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. -- Wilkie Collins
When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed? -- P. D. James
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. -- John Adams
I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. -- Neil Gaiman
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. -- Wes Streeting
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses. -- Mark Rippetoe

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