1.
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Henry David Thoreau
2.
I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.
Jim Jefferies
3.
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
Kabir
4.
I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
Diosdado Macapagal
5.
I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness
Bobby Gould
6.
I sat in a garage and invented the future.
Steve Jobs
7.
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
Franz Kafka
8.
I scored 1.1 on my SAT,
And still push a whip with a right and left AC.
Redman
9.
I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.
Jennifer Niven
10.
When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
P. D. James
11.
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
Christie Hefner
12.
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
Wilkie Collins
13.
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
Daphne du Maurier
14.
Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.
Joseph Prince
15.
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
J. R. R. Tolkien
16.
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.
Lesley Visser
17.
If I sat down in any room, I'd have as much to learn from anybody in that room as they'd have to learn from me. If I sit down and just really listen and hear who you are and what you have to say, what you fears are, what your ambitions are, and what your vision is, I have just as much to learn from you as you have to learn from me.
Wayne Dyer
18.
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde
19.
We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.
Peter Høeg
20.
I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.
James Brolin
21.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
Vincente Minnelli
22.
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
Francesca Annis
23.
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
Jennifer Aniston
24.
I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
Meg Cabot
25.
From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 9/11 I've always found myself crossing into the unknown - to the darker recesses.
Michael Ware
26.
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.
Donald Barthelme
27.
Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
Paul Simon
28.
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
Skeet Ulrich
29.
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
Jasper Fforde
30.
I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
Michael Stuhlbarg
31.
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
H. P. Lovecraft
33.
A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really thought about how there aren't really many female directors. I knew it, but I'd never really sat down and thought about the implications of that, and what it meant for a woman to make a movie, and how it's viewed differently when a woman makes a movie about women.
Sophia Takal
34.
I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.
Jay Asher
35.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Edgar Allan Poe
36.
It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.
Marie Lu
37.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
Horace
38.
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.
Wes Streeting
39.
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
Cormac McCarthy
40.
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
Bob Costas
41.
I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
John Katzman
42.
I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.
David Bowie
43.
But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
Susan Fletcher
44.
All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.
Robin McKinley
45.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Anthony Powell
46.
We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.
Katie White
47.
She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
John Irving