Chairs Quote by John D'Agata

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the…

— Jane Austen

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

— Vasily Rozanov

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair.…

— George Burns

I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a…

— Albert Einstein

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per…

— Susan Rothenberg

I meet Daniel Day-Lewis. He's just sitting in a chair on the set. Now, I had been told that Daniel Day-Lewis was kind of…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke…

— Chrissie Hynde

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

— Alain de Botton

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting…

— Philip Yancey