(956 quotes found)
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”
Bill Watterson
“In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Coliseum called the Caesarian Section”
George Carlin
“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”
Dudley Clendinen
“The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.”
Mark Twain
“God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
“One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly; 'Cheer up, things could be worse' So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse”
James C. Hagerty
“I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that. . .”
Steve Martin
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
Bible
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
J. D. Salinger