Accustomed Quote by Ian Hacking

“A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for…

— Kat Daughtry

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional…

— Havelock Ellis

“An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns;…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured…

— Amit Chaudhuri

Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with a committment

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Everything that was once alive is now mechanical. Technology certainly brought a new ease and accuracy, but apart from these ultimately less important details,…

— Alain Baraton

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

— James H. Austin

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

— Rick Moranis

If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode…

— Aldous Huxley

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

— Henry Ford

Isn't weird how chairs exist even when you're not sitting on them? -Ben Stone

— Knocked Up (The Movie

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