Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking…

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak…

— Alice Munro

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…

— Hilary Kornblith

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool…

— Hugh Jackman

The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about…

— Hilary Kornblith

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British…

— Carl Froch

Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief…

— Hilary Kornblith

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting…

— Henri Matisse

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

— Tom Hardy

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall…

— Laura Lee

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real…

— Tim Ferriss

They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses…

— Neil Gaiman

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and…

— Maeve Binchy

Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will…

— Cassandra Clare

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night?…

— Michael Dirda