It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

- Arlen Specter

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

- Amanda Hocking

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

- Aaron Eckhart

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

- Augusten Burroughs

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

- Anne Enright

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

- Andy Roddick

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

- Amanda Palmer

I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.

- Allison Tolman

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

- Alexander McCall Smith

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

- Anita Hill

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

- Aaron Paul

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

- Ann Landers

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

- Amanda Seyfried

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

- Amanda Seyfried

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

- Alice Walker

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

- Alexander Pope

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

- Alan Rickman

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

- Al Franken