Chairs Quotes · Page 13

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making…

— Charles Koch

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be…

— Muqtada al Sadr

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats…

— Emily Post

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

— Martin Ryle

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the…

— Virginia Graham

Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever…

— Scott Adams

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write.…

— Cory Doctorow

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person,…

— Jan Hus

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,…

— Alistair Cooke

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On…

— Garrison Keillor

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my…

— John Berger

Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for…

— Edward Snowden

If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate.…

— Bernie Sanders

[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were…

— Megyn Kelly

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,…

— Donald Miller

I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I…

— Dick Cheney

I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But…

— Laura Huxley

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you…

— Bill Burr

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

— Morton Feldman

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

— Gregory Corso

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to…

— Patty Duke

A lot of people believe, including Howard Dean is looking at this, that the Democratic party demands a full-time chair.

— George Stephanopoulos

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

— Jann Arden

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

— Henry David Thoreau

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

— Hillary Clinton

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

— George Santayana

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

— Sandra Cisneros

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

— Colonel Sanders

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

— Randy Newman

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

— Groucho Marx