Best Chair Proverbs
692 Chair quotes by 582 unique authors
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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
— Mark Twain
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You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and been there a…
— Brendan
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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
— Augusten Burroughs
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In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
— Martin Ryle
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not…
— Georgette Heyer
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If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able…
— Guy Forget
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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the…
— G. H. Hardy
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint,…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate…
— Anne Bishop
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d…
— Eddie Vedder
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with…
— Fredric Jameson
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Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and…
— Hippolytus of Rome
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The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might…
— Thomas Merton
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I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]
— John T. Scopes
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For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
— Morton Feldman
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There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel…
— E L Doctorow
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My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
— Niels Diffrient
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As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like…
— William Hughes Mearns
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One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers,…
— George Gissing
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Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a…
— Sarah Manguso
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Who is sitting in that empty chair?
— Eugene Ormandy
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My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here…
— CM Punk
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The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with…
— Michael Scheuer
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