#sittin

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#could #country #crumbling #growing #i

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can. ↗

— Jerry Only

#band #best #focusing #i #job

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#babies #being #cannot #compassionate #days

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#consider #down #i #important #just

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things. ↗

— Mary Hansen

#also #around #asses #change #changes

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#being #better #knowing #maxim #may

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #appeals #being #being honest #even

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#appreciate #beach #day #eight #hours

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. ↗

— M. Emmet Walsh

#hell #i #man #old #old man