Quotes about chair
William Gibson - The Miracle Worker
She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
Christina Engela - Loderunner
It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn’t enjoy jokes about his name much.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!
Philip - Duke of Edinburgh
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
Christina Engela - Blachart
Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he lazily …
Stephen King - The Green Mile
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.
Christina Engela - Space Sucks!
Same time as every day, Fyl..." she fussed, the rest of the bridge crew seeming to hold their breaths. "TWELVE THIRTY!" came the chorus. The next hour dragged by, in about the same way as the hour before that. At twelve twenty-five, Commander Ortez found himself stepping out of an elevator into an equally mundane grey steel corridor on his way to the mess hall. Turning a corner, he met with a stream of crewmen milling around between shifts. Some off-duty personnel were lounging around in civvies
Whitney Wolfe -
Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.
Ingmar Bergman -
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Helen Hayes -
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Bill Callahan -
You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Will Poulter -
My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.
Antonin Scalia -
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Marshall McLuhan -
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Bob Graham -
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
Luke Macfarlane -
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
John Hurt -
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
Bernard Williams -
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
John Cameron -
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
William J. Clinton -
In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.
Hilary Mantel -
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
Gary Hamel -
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
David McFadden -
Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
Yves Behar -
Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
Sean Patrick Thomas -
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Al Madrigal -
I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.
May Sarton -
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
Jeff Hardy -
I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs make it memorable make an impact! Leave a legacy!
Munia Khan - Beyond The Vernal Mind
I found an empty chairand sat on itto find myself even emptier.I found a broken glassand looked at itto see my dissolved facea little prettierI found a steep doorwayand enteredin order to close my exit.From the poem 'Blue Stanzas
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
Don’t be deceived; who they say you are, is not who you become. You become who you think you are. You take the chair in your own programmings!
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and be at the fore-front.
Lauren Lola - An Absolute Mind
A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for all we know and never have any memory to embody. A chair could transcend time and generations; from the people who sat in it and onlookers. It's all about considering what stories could be told if they had voices of their own.