Chairs Quotes · Page 6

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

— Mason Cooley

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

— Muhammad Ali

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

— Walter Winchell

15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.

— John Cena

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

— Will Rogers

I was honored when [Donald Trump] asked me to chair the transition effort.

— Mike Pence

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

— Peter Hain

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be…

— Keith Ellison

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down…

— Phil Ochs

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice…

— Robert Downey, Sr

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

— Vidal Sassoon

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

— Louis MacNeice

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to…

— Beatrice Lillie

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

— Cameron Diaz

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into…

— Leigh Hunt

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you,…

— Richelle Mead

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and…

— Ben Affleck

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words…

— Mark Twain

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick…

— John Green

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we…

— Douglas Adams

If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the…

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the…

— Nicole Krauss

Then maybe it's time to change that." Della sat back in her chair. "Change what?" Kylie asked. "Come out of the closet.…

— C.C. Hunter

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down,…

— Anonymous

My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen…

— Jann Arden

She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's…

— Eleanor Smeal

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of…

— Stephen King

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of…

— Ishmael Reed

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

— Graham Greene

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro…

— Bill Cosby

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that…

— Thomas Harris

I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

— Milton Berle

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

— Janis Joplin

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

— Lucinda Riley