Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading…

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

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

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 said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle