Animal Quote by Emilio Ambasz

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For…

— Ralph Caplan

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he…

— Wendell Pierce

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

— Louis C. K

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the…

— Richard Avedon

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

— Ettore Sottsass

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status,…

— Evan Davis

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

— Robert Fulghum

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…

— Niels Diffrient

No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.

— Yip Harburg

“To save space and money, Thor and my mom work in the same office, which is basically like a converted closet, only smaller. In…

— Jarod Kintz

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in…

— Sarah Manguso