I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight." "Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests....
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take m...
First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwright will tell you that when the actor sits down the play sits down. The best move of all is to estab...
(fragment) Three things I turned my back to: light, the past, the trunk of an old tree. One by one each unfastened itself. To sit is to present when the roll is called. I knew that. I wore my hat of straw, fringed like fingers sifting a breeze. My ha...
Isabelle: [last lines; at the part Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook] [voice over] Isabelle: Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station. Why did he li...
George Weasley: [while sitting at the Gryffindor table, eating Christmas dinner] How do you like yours, Ron? [Ron, however, keep glancing over at Harry, who is sitting far away from everyone else, staring into the fire, remembering the image of his p...
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
You’re the one sitting there with a boner. You’ll terrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointing at them.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'!
Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.
If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.
I know," I say. "It sucks. Let's go get tacos and sit on the beach.
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
