I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main…

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