I’m a history buff, and right now we’re sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it. – James Daly
Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world. – Alex Tabarrok
When I’m on the set, I’ll come up with ideas if I’m sort of just between responsibilities, because there’s a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. – Bruce Eric Kaplan
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. – Bill Budge
Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. – James Salter
I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time. – Brandi Carlile
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. – Benjamin Britten
As much as you may be sitting in the top five or the top 10, sometimes you just don’t get that chance to get to the top. – Charlotte Dujardin
The champagne tastes the same if you’re sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better. – Anouska Hempel
If you hear a New Order track that’s mostly electronic, it’s generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it. – Bernard Sumner
When you’re sitting ringside, there’s a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It’s just two guys going at it in the ring – there’s no team, no one to pass the ball to – and there’s a certain excitement to that. – Antoine Fuqua
I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No. – Bill O’Reilly
I’ve always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along. – Ann Leckie
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles Kettering
I try to write very fast. I don’t revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It’s usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I’ll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. – Billy Collins
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
I’m going to do ‘The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.’ And I have a part in ‘Beige Swan.’ I’m going to be the lead, but I don’t dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It’s too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never. – Amy Poehler
My first ‘SNL’ episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue – it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn’t get him – it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row. – Bobby Moynihan
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist’s chair. – Augusten Burroughs
I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I’m in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body. – Aaron Schock
My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one. – Alanis Morissette
I’m never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me. – Cary Fukunaga