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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Sit Quotes

Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else.

– J. K. Rowling

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

– Hanna Rosin

I don’t sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

– Genevieve Bujold

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

– Howard Hodgkin

I’m a guy that likes to sit in one place.

– Harvey Pekar

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

– Henry David Thoreau

I’m not going to sit for some painting. That’s so 1800s. I’m not doing that.

– Jason Chaffetz

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

– John Bercow

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

– Holland Roden

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

– Jon Scieszka

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

– Jan Schakowsky

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

– Jonathan Swift

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I’m writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I’ll just sit and roll tape.

– Bernie Worrell

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

– Andy Roddick

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

– Calvin Coolidge

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

– Charlie Haden

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

– Alben W. Barkley

I don’t sit around and get depressed about things. It’s not my character.

– Neil Morrissey

I’m off to sit on a cliff.

– Nik Kershaw

I don’t sit down to write a song, per se.

– Creed Bratton

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

– Mary Harris Jones

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I’m coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren’t working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

– Maggie Gyllenhaal

When I testify, I’ll testify. I don’t need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

– Mark Fuhrman

Trade isn’t about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

– C. J. Cherryh

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

– Patricia Cornwell

I don’t card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don’t edit.

– Nia Vardalos

I don’t want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That’s just not what I want to do.

– Nicolas Cage

The mood of the 80s – Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

– Patricia Schroeder

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

– Francois Rabelais

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it’s one of those things where I wouldn’t be able to sit down and specifically write that. That’s just what came out.

– Dweezil Zappa

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