#sits

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. ↗

— George W. Bush

#cell #found #hole #iraq #now

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. ↗

— John Zorn

#cloth #drum #drum set #dues #fact

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#bank #bank account #class #cut #know

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#character #college #dummy #first #happen

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#back #did #found #had #i

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ↗

— Rebecca West

#affairs #anybody #biography #considers #difficult

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

— Theodore White

#friend #nobody #reporter #sits #typewriter

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#every #fellow #observant #outskirts #points

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down