Best Chair Lines
692 Chair quotes by 582 unique authors
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The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining…
— Philip Wylie
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The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is…
— Paul MacCready
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to…
— Lewis Buzbee
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Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
— Edward Bond
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Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a…
— Chrissie Hynde
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Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless…
— Philippe Starck
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and…
— Patrick Stewart
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Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on…
— Marlene Dietrich
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This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon…
— James Russell Lowell
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I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I…
— James Joyce
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John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that…
— Mickey Rooney
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Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has…
— Benjamin Franklin
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You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you…
— Deryck Whibley
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to…
— Anthony Minghella
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A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
— Ettore Sottsass
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Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair…
— Pope Pius IX
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All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.
— Vasily Rozanov
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I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
— George Washington
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do…
— Anne Fadiman
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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems…
— Ogden Nash
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When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs…
— Jack Handey
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I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it…
— Clive Barker
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Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down....
— Phil Ochs
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This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs…
— Oprah Winfrey
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...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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