Seats Quotes - Page 18

• Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Needs, Proof, Helicopters

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• When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Writing, School, Bridges

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• Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Country, Cities

  Samuel Sharpe (1896). “Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom”

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• If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Beach, Airline, Devices

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• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  Lev Grossman

  Coffee, Writing, Games

  "The Exchange: Lev Grossman" by Andrea Walkman, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2009.

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• We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, People, Generations

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2017

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• The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.

  Martin Clunes

  Trouble

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do.

  L. Todd Rose

  Air, Average, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

  Dave Evans

  Play, People, Critics

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• Internalize the vagrant mind and fix it in the Lord. Then the meditation will be profound and intense. Don't open the eyes. Don't move from the seat. Melt yourself down into Him. Dive in the deep corners of your heart. Get immerse in the brilliant Atman. Drink the nectar of Immortality. Now enjoy the silence. Son of the nectar! Rejoice! Peace! Silence! Glory!

  Sivananda

  Moving, Heart, Eye

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• I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Reading, Play, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.

  Steven R. McQueen

  People, Vampire, Diaries

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.

  Juan Enriquez

  Book, People, Burning

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down." It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

  Michael Emerson

  Sunday, Hair, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

  Seth Godin

  Epidemiology, Space, People

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Letting Go, Sweet, Real

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Mind, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

  James Hetfield

  Heaven, Green, Contribution

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• Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Father, Team

  Tom Verducci (2011). “Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci”, p.201, Time Home Entertainment

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• Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, People, Individuality

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• On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Eyebrows, Lotuses

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."

  Anne Sweeney

  Kids, Saving, Down And

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I really want the audience to be on the edge of their seats.

  Leanne Pooley

  Want, Audience, Edges

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 6, 2013.

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