Quotes of: Sat Keyword

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

Amy Robach

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.

Atticus Ross

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

Maria Monk

For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies.

Michael Arrington

We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose o...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I’m happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass. ...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Karen Clarke: What's going on there, Simon? Simon Foster: It's... It's departmental business. It's about a wall. Karen Clarke: Oh, Gaza? Simon Foster: Uh-huh. Karen Clarke: I'm wondering where you were in committee, Simon. I called for back-up and yo...

In the Loop

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Forever

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

Getting the Girl

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. 

British Bulldog

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Bird of Paradise

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

Stijn Streuvels

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

About a Boy

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Adam Bede

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

The Spire

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

The Snack Thief