Standing There Quotes

• She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Reading, Together

  "A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.

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• Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

  Frances Hardinge

  Kindness, Soul, Humanity

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, Piano

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

  Joel Plaskett

  Beautiful, Needs, Stills

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• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hunting, Fishing, Healthy

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.

  Anuradha Koirala

  Strength, Daughter, Children

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• Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

  Justin Hayward

  Mirrors, Looks, Earth

  Song: The Lights Are Low, Album: Moving Mountains

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• Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Eye, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Mean, Thinking, Directors

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Facts, Action

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

  John D. MacDonald

  Blindfolds, Standing

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• My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Shelves, Knows

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• When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive

  Felix Baumgartner

  Humble, Thinking, Data

  "Austrian daredevil breaks sound barrier jumping from space". "7.30" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.

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• So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Wall, Humor

  "The Best God Joke Ever - and It's Mine!". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wish, Church, Remember

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• When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

  Meryl Streep

  Home, Kids, Parenting

  "Oprah Talks to Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore". www.oprah.com. 2003.

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Ann Rinaldi (2011). “Time Enough for Drums”, p.125, Laurel Leaf

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• I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

  Norm Sloan

  Funny, Basketball, Hate

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• I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Children, Men

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• Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, but you can't do that at the foot of the cross. Those who pierced Him also stood at the foot of the cross. Standing there does not bring any pain to the flesh; but when you are crucified together with Jesus, you will come to know the fellowship of His sufferings.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Jesus, Pain, Life Changing

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict’s mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I’d be out with my pram and Wanda and I would be talking and there was poor little Benedict, who I suppose was about four, standing there while we were gossiping in the high street for hours!

  Una Stubbs

  Mother, Talking, Would Be

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• I always feel I have to take a stand,
  And there's always someone on hand
  To hate me for standing there.
  I always feel I have to open my mouth,
  And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Hands, Mouths

  Song: What If No One's Watching, Album: Imperfectly

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• It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

  Homer

  Tree, Jerk, Standing

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