#sitting

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

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anything #away #bar #before #book

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong. ↗

— Sly Stone

#long #much #permanent #right #sitting

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#certainly #circle #club #could #even

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then. ↗

— Michael Symon

#around #back #day #dinner #down

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. ↗

— Robert Hunter

#being #down #like #sitting

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#elephant #hollywood #like #living #living room

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#i #like #sets #sitting #unpredictability

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. ↗