Chairs Quotes · Page 9

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises…

— Eudora Welty

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

— Alain de Lille

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with…

— Brent Spiner

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

— Yoko Ono

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your…

— Ellen G. White

Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that…

— Hafez

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

— Thom Yorke

What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting…

— AraabMuzik

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in…

— Terry Pratchett

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers…

— Drew Barrymore

Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber,…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom…

— Bill Bryson

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,…

— Mark Haddon

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner,…

— Francisco Costa

When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say…

— Gilbert Ryle

What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also…

— Richard Simmons

We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a…

— Rick Riordan

These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb,…

— Pope Leo XIII

I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and…

— E. B. White

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of…

— Anonymous

I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme…

— John Lennon

I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them…

— Zach Braff

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

— Wally Byam

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with…

— Patrick O'Brian

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

— I. L. Peretz

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the…

— Emma Watson

The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.

— Jerry Stahl

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

— Elizabeth Bowen

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not…

— Muqtada al Sadr

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a…

— Margaret Benson

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

— Nate Berkus

Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.

— Dave Barry

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at…

— Ann Wright

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

— Ettore Sottsass

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

— Wallis Simpson