- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sitting Quotes
Most Famous Sitting Quotes of All Time!
Sitting here captures both stillness and the avoidance that so often comes with it, from stacks of unpublished work waiting patiently to a beloved show that always seems to be airing on a screen somewhere.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big one for sitting by the pool doing nothing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
One especially honest line breaks down how much of writing is really just delay before any actual sitting down to work begins. See Rest quotes for related calm, or Presence quotes.