#sitting

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

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#engineer #five #go #goes #know

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #desperate #experts #forced #geneva

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. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american public #been #challenger #convince #inclined

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands. ↗

— Guy Forget

#being #chair #did #doubles #down

He's sitting in the catbird seat. ↗

— Red Barber

#sitting

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' ↗

— Javier Bardem

#after #back #come #doing #go

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#especially #i #living #moment #moments

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#ass #been #being #creating #feeling