I’m not conniving – that has a pejorative context. I’m not sitting in back rooms making deals. That’s not my style. – Bess Myerson
If you’re sitting in a place like Martha’s Vineyard, I don’t think you’re going to write a song about a ski resort. – Adam Schlesinger
We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. – Barack Obama
This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance. – Chris O’Donnell
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that’s basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors. – Ben Shapiro
When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money. – Bill Goldberg
We’ve got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them? – Carl Honore
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund. – Anthony Foxx
I’m sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That’s one of the coolest things in the world for anybody. – Bill Goldberg
When I’m sitting in a casting room in Paris, I’m not the thinnest model. Sometimes I’m not the most flat-chested, either. – Andrej Pejic
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position. – Alan Moore
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. – Aimee Mann
If you’re sitting in front of the TV, you can’t have ice cream. But if you’re running around all day, then yeah, you can. – Alison Sweeney
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking. – Bruce Eric Kaplan
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on. – Dolly Parton
I don’t like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don’t like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours. – Enda Kenny
I have my own office, and I’m there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I’m sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour. – Dries van Noten
The only thing I’d ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. – Ed Bradley
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
I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I’m not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain’t sharing. – Dwayne Johnson
The Federal Reserve – all of them – could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger. – Marc Faber
I wrote ‘Black Deutschland’ very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes. – Darryl Pinckney
I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay. – Mark Rutte
I live an hour from NASA’s HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out. – Ellen Stofan