Chairs Quotes

709 Chairs quotes by 591 unique authors

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
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
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
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
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. — Edward Bond
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
I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them so wide? I… — Zach Braff
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
No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word… — David Platt
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
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
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
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
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
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
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
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
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
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady — Ettore Sottsass
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your… — Henry David Thoreau
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all… — Edward Lear
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
All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance. — Vasily Rozanov
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
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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