I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called… — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they… — Robley Wilson Copy Share Image
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up.… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging… — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I give away wheelchairs to people who need them because they're expensive and not everybody can afford one. So I figured why… — Mohammed Saeed Harib Copy Share Image
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to… — Amanda Pays Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and… — Richard Fleeshman Copy Share Image
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image