I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
Dwayne Hickman

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
Orson Pratt

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Anne Tyler

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
Barney Ross

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
John Glover

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
Vin Diesel

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
Jonathan Katz

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.
Eugene Ormandy

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
David Antin

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Cindy Sheehan

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Drew Barrymore

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.
Alonzo Mourning

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
Bruce Sterling

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.
Andrew Sullivan

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
Jamie Kennedy

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.
Tina Brown