#sitting

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#anything #around #became #came #cartoonists

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#corner #everywhere #except #found #i

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#around #better #come #doing #family

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

The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#america #bad #challenge #day #great

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do? ↗

— Steve Wynn

#died #doctor #during #father #getting

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #just #many #predicted #right

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#been #came #continuous #ever #i

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?' ↗

— Demi Lovato

#am #auditions #doing #home #hundreds