Seats Quotes - Page 21

• He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thrones, Rooms, Wanted

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• Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Cat, Alcohol

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• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Silence, Parent

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• Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mirrors, Rosary, Matter

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• I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.

  Pete Wilson

  Jobs, Life Changing, Generosity

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• I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

  Claudette Colvin

  Moving, History, Glue

  "Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. March 2, 2015.

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• The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

  Wallace Tripp

  Inspiration, Drawing, Principles

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• The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

  Ryan Holiday

  Winning, Leaving, Ass

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.95, Penguin

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• I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Fame, Delusional, Knows

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• When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Use, Offensive

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• Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

  Pablo Picasso

  Drawing, Looks, Paper

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• Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Baby, Gratitude, Cutting

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• Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

  Leigh Hunt

  Justice, Poetry, Tree

  Leigh Hunt, S. Hamilton (1815). “The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse”, p.168

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• The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.

  Suzy Kassem

  Eye, Heart, Night

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• ...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

  Stephen King

  Knowing, Library, Sitting

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

  Bill Klem

  Hands, Voice, Guy

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• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Forest Whitaker

  Movie, Kids, Car

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Ronald Steel

  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

  Red Grooms

  Done, Pants, Walks

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.

  Thomas A. Bailey

  Responsibility, Thinking, History

  Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.10, Ardent Media

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• He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Ethics of Confucius".

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• To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

  Rick Majerus

  Thinking, Important, Defense

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• New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Cities, People

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