Chairs Quotes

709 Chairs quotes by 591 unique authors

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad… — J. Patrick Lewis
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you,… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating… — Billy Collins
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be… — Albert Camus
He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of… — Ken Kesey
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. — Ruth Reichl
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing… — Aldous Huxley
Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian? — Eoin Colfer
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and… — Terry Pratchett
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way? — Steven Wright
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it… — Melissa Marr
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common… — Oscar Wilde
You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you… — Steven Wright
The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the… — William Goldman
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen… — Cornelia Funke
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as… — Charles Bukowski
It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good… — Augusten Burroughs
You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or… — Gail Giles
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor… — Steve Toltz
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who… — Os Guinness

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