Chairs Quote by Ettore Sottsass

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

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

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

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the…

— Paul Klee

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,…

— Carrie Fisher

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

— David Bowie

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case.…

— Virginia Graham

I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an exhibit but…

— Sam Maloof

I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

— Milton Berle

“Chairs are useful”

— The Doctor Matt Smith

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign.…

— Miranda July