I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." — Robin Williams
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. — May Sarton
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. — Arthur Smith
An uninvited in-law finds no space to sit — Greek Proverbs
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. — Liam Gallagher
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. — Eliel Saarinen
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. — Ruth Reichl
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. — Barack Obama
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water. — Julia Peterkin
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. — Glenn Turner
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair — Sammy Gravano
A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer
When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair. — Yiddish Proverbs
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. — Ray Toro
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. — Merlin Mann
Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!! — Sayings
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government. — Colonel Sanders
Chair Image Quotes
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.
Big Chair Quotes
Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere. — Blake Shelton
My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. — Wendy Liebman
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people just need a high-five.In the face.With a chair.
I'm a small person put in this big chair. — Manmohan Singh
I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. — Raymond Chandler
I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants. — Stephen Colbert
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me. — Jose Mourinho
We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. — Elizabeth Vargas
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. — Gloria Steinem
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility — Pat Summitt
Empty Chair Quotes
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. — H. Rap Brown
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. — Laura Hillenbrand
There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't want to speak to two empty chairs. — Roger Clemens
Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. — Paul Krugman
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room. — Per Petterson
Beach Chair Quotes
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. — Stephen Collins
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean. — Ann Wright
No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you. — Don Rickles
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair. — Robert Orben
Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one — Joe Budden
I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up* — Thom Yorke
Sitting In A Chair Quotes
The general trend is that people who frequently carry heavy loads and do other 'back-breaking' work get fewer back injuries than those who sit in chairs for hours bent over a machine. — Daniel Lieberman
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. — Frances Perkins
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. — Dan Buettner
I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks. — Jonathan Brandis
I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket. — Don Rickles
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days. — Patty Duke
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. — Grandma Moses
Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance! — Milton H. Erickson
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? — Jerry Pournelle
Rocking Chair Quotes
I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair. — Stevie Nicks
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. — Red Adair
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. — Nora Johnson
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. — Martha Graham
Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. — Wally Byam
I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object. — Wallis Simpson
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. — M. Emmet Walsh
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. — Dan Rather
I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried. — Dolly Parton
Time Out Chair Quotes
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work. — Grace Paley
I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair. — Beatrice Lillie
The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time. — Robert Benchley
Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog. — Jack Paar
I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently. — Dannii Minogue
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. — Douglas Adams
I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair. — Mark Shields
I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head. — Lynne Rae Perkins
Chairman Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. — Sam Walton
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci
The dialogue with financial partners continues – I talked with Chairman of the World Bank Group. The World Bank is ready to effectively and powerfully support. This is important for overcoming the effects of Russian aggression. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know. — Mao Zedong
It was created by David Rockefeller, the chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and from the Rockefeller oil dynasty. The other founder was a political scientist from Columbia University named Zbigniew Brzezinski. The two of them founded the Trilateral Commission. — Alex Jones
We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it? — Cassandra Clare
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger
We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made. — Deng Xiaoping
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate. — John M. McHugh
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. — Frank Zappa
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. — Jan Hus
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. — Stephen King
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option. — Anne Bogart
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly. — Ellen Tauscher
Muscle imbalances caused by hours of sitting in chairs have also been hypothesized to contribute to one of the most common health problems on the planet: lower back pain. Depending on where you live and what you do, your chances of getting lower back pain are between 60 and 90 percent. — Daniel Lieberman
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! — Sean Patrick Thomas
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences. — Michael Craig-Martin
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. — James Wolcott
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to! — Richard Fleeshman
If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win? — Michael Badnarik
By 2012, my game was shot. You’re sitting on your chair watching players’ leagues below you play shots you can’t. That destroyed me. — Stephen Hendry
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. — Sayings
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. — A. J. P. Taylor
David Sinclair and Charles Brenner basically go back and forth about two different molecules, NR and NMN, as precursors for NAD. And again, I would say no disrespect to them, but that's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic compared to exercise. — Peter Attia
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. — Ron Kind
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me! — Leigh Hunt
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did. — Luis Walter Alvarez
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