(2052 quotes found)
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.”
Cameron Diaz
“Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.”
Clifford Stoll
“After a hard days work, it's nice to go back to the trailer and see him [her cat] sitting there waiting for me.”
“Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.”
John Skow
“After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school”
Kin Hubbard
“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled”
George Bernard Shaw
“The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.”
William MacNeile Dixon
“But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.”
Heinrich Hoffman
“O God! methinks it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,Thereby to see the minutes how they run,How many make the hour full complete;How many hours bring about the day;How many days will finish up the year;How many years a mortal man may live.”
William Shakespeare
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
Thomas Hobbes
