Chairs Quotes

709 Chairs quotes by 591 unique authors

Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair. — Ani DiFranco
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,… — Corrie Ten Boom
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were… — Janet Fitch
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the… — Patricia Marx
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught… — Gustave Flaubert
That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent… — Raymond Carver
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a… — Betty Smith
There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream… — Neil Gaiman
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry… — John Berger
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke… — Dr. Seuss
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday. — Robert Fulghum
You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once… — C.S. Lewis
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses… — Bertolt Brecht
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage,… — Anne Bishop
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. — Graham Greene
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,… — Vladimir Nabokov
I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and… — Carrie Fisher
Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!! — Graham Chapman
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. — C.S. Lewis

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