These sat quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sat quotes, sat sayings, and sat proverbs.
Best Sat Quotes
- “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” ~ J. D. Salinger
- “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” ~ Oliver Cromwell
- “What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’…. And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “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
- “Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids – two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.” ~ Robert Breault
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“I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I’m very intelligent when I speak.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
- “The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It’s a miracle, a cosmic miracle.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!” ~ Charles Lamb
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“Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations – if you get my drift.” ~ Dave Barry
- “Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it – into the rhythm of the place, I mean – then when I got up to go home I couldn’t walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,–beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,–so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.” ~ Edmund Spenser
- “Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen
- “Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.” ~ Anne Tyler
- “Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.” ~ Nancy Mitford
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“The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, “We stop here; do you stop also.” ~ Julia Ward Howe
- “The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.” ~ Bayard Taylor - “In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
For mighty wonders fam’d in days of yore:
The other held a globe, which to his will
Obedient turn’d, and own’d the master’s skill:
Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
And look’d through nature at a single view:
A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
Call’d into being scenes unknown before,
And passing nature’s bounds, was something more.” ~ Charles Churchill - “it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.” ~ Mary McCarthy
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“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys’s and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.” ~ Samuel Pepys
- “Any piece of furniture, I don’t care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character … A good deal like human beings.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don’t stare at us like that! they said. Don’t blame us if we didn’t turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn’t ask to be brought into the world.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool – and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.” ~ Deacon Jones
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“I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.” ~ Dorothy Wordsworth
- “I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.” ~ Joan Jett
- “I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!” ~ Phyllis Bottome
- “[On living in New York City:] I’m oblivious to everything. I just don’t notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman’s lap for an hour.” ~ Laura Kightlinger
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“When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.” ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
- “There was a stately drama writ
By the hand that peopled the earth and air,
And set the stars in the infinite,
And made night gorgeous and morning fair;
And all that had sense to reason knew
That bloody drama must be gone through.
Some sat and watched how the action veered–
Waited, profited, trembled, cheered–
We saw not clearly nor understood,
But yielding ourselves to the masterhand,
Each in his part as best he could,
We played it through as the author planned.” ~ Alan Seeger - “[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn’t belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.” ~ Mary Antin
- “how many times would a defendant’s lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, ‘Are you the assistant in charge?’ while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
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“Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.” ~ Liza Cody
- “A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
Conversed as they sat on the green.
They gazed on each other with tender delight,
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight–
The maiden’s the Fair Imogene.” ~ Matthew Gregory Lewis - “Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East’. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.” ~ Dominicus Corea
- “It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.” ~ Edward Jenks
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“I didn’t know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.” ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
- “There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they’re artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I’ve sat down and listened to them and just been bored.” ~ George Hamilton
- “I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.” ~ John Updike
- “I’m not sure I’d classify any topics as off-limits, but I don’t look for new territories to offend. There’s my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they’re warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.” ~ Amy Schumer
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“I’m not even the coolest one of my friends. I’m just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.” ~ Tucker Max
- “The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan’s memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.” ~ Richard Rodriguez
- “The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly’s Clubhouse.” ~ Charles Lever
- “There’s not one club in Europe with an anthem like You’ll Never Walk Alone. There’s not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That’s something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.” ~ Johan Cruijff
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“I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons – wearing a tiara.” ~ Anne Hathaway
- “I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.” ~ Jamie Dornan
- “As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, ‘those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter’s Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.’ Van Meter’s greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It’s like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don’t make sound bites like they used to!” ~ Mo Rocca
- “My father was ruined by hard drink – he sat on an icicle.” ~ Bob Monkhouse
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“I just sat all night looking at him, saying, ‘Wow, it’s incredible.’ When Yoko woke up, I told her, ‘He’s fine,’ and we cried.” ~ John Lennon
- “My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour’s journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read – it was long before TV, remember!” ~ Maeve Binchy
- “Where I lived – winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring’s flowersto her mother’s house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.” ~ Carol Ann Duffy
- “These days I don’t look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I’ve got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I’m sure that I’m still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well……I can’t play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can’t do it. I don’t know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.” ~ David Gilmour
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“Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.” ~ Melissa Marr
- “The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.” ~ Luther Standing Bear
- “In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.” ~ Richard Armour
- “I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.” ~ Don Winslow
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“I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.” ~ Jennifer Niven
- “There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
“Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”
“Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth
“You owe me”
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky..”” ~ Hafez - “When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I’d have to figure out something to do.” ~ Ben Falcone
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“What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we’ve sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.” ~ Frances Mayes
- “The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.” ~ Virginia Postrel
- “There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.” ~ Charles Dickens
