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A wind with a wolf's head
Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
And sat upon the floor. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

When we were three together, we stuck our fingers into each other's eyes and pulled chairs out from underneath. — Justin Torres

My verse
has brought me
no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. — Adam Garcia

They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs. — Colum McCann

stark white end chairs and a sofa. — Lee Driver

If I'd been joking I would have said, a blind guy walks into a bar. And a table. And a couple of chairs. — Anonymous

My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats

They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness. — Narendra Modi

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." — Robin Williams

Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance! — Milton H. Erickson

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair. — Michael Heseltine

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. — Bernard Malamud

Plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents — Vladimir Nabokov

Folding chairs were flying through the air as if propelled by dozens of invisible Bobby Knights. — David Wong

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet. — Kelly Braffet

Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. — William Cowper

One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs — David Hilbert

You can't sit on two chairs at once. — Andrei Sakharov

My mother's dead, and I have to live with her charming husband, and nobody in New York speaks French, and there aren't any chairs in your son's room. — J.D. Salinger

I can win those four-chair turns all day. — Usher

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs — Muhammad Ali

A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture. — Kat Daughtry

Now light sits in the chairs — Rae Armantrout

No one chair should be isolated ... — Elsie De Wolfe

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. — George Steiner

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs. — Bill Johnson

Ellie screwed a plaque into the back of one of the chairs: "His Royal Ass Was Here." Beside it, Marty scratched into the wood: "And it was fiiine." I — Emma Chase

And sitting around the table on the fine-quality chairs and sofas were Magnus Bane, Jem Carstairs, Catarina Loss, and Clary, — Cassandra Clare

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair. — Ellen DeGeneres

chairs. We are practising for an English Academy of Letters." Lord — Oscar Wilde

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it. — Charles Pollock

The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could. — Robin Sloan

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs. — Rodney Dangerfield

Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own. — Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs ... I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs. — Ralph Caplan

Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was overly-familiar with chairs that flew, with wardrobes that led to snowy woods, and holes in the ground with hobbits in them. — Linda Grant

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair. — Mark Zuckerberg

I eased back into the throne. Damn comfortable: swan-down and silk. Kinging it is pain in the arse enough without one of those gothic chairs. — Mark Lawrence

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair. — William Makepeace Thackeray

She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away. — Tamora Pierce

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small. — Jim Rohn

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. — Walter Winchell

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. — Elizabeth Vargas

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing. — Paul Kearney

Twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form, — Michael Connelly

one of the lounge chairs. Serena — Jonathan Tropper

The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us! — Israelmore Ayivor

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. — Charles D. Broad

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea. — Mason Cooley

Well, the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't give
out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. — Wally Byam

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

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue. — Mercedes McCambridge

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? — William Vickrey

The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do. — John Steinbeck

If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Chairs are like sculpture. — Robert Wilson

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair. — John D'Agata

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear. — J.D. Salinger

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are. — Mario Bellini

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. — Laura Hillenbrand

Give Dayrolles a chair. — Lord Chesterfield

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do still collect chairs. — Robert Wilson

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair. — Jimi Hendrix

Okay, I'll move the lawn chairs. (Axel) — Robert Kirkman

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke

I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table. — Sebastian Horsley

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair. — Ani DiFranco

The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion. — Faith Hunter

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier

The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney. — Heidi Cullinan

Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire. — Barbara Delinsky

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

When the time comes, everybody's got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn't have a place to call my own. It's like musical chairs. — Haruki Murakami

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs. — Candice Olson

Started from the chair hop now we here. — Bill Gates

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. — Paul Krugman

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. — Ray Toro

In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs — Allan Wolf

Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs. — Melissa Jensen

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair? — Leonore Fleischer

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. — Erma Bombeck

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair. — Neta Jackson

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean ... Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. — Gerard Way

Time was away and somewhere else,
There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with one pulse. — Louis MacNeice

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair. — Neil Diamond

Alchohol doesn't make you fat ... it make you Lean ... on tables, chairs & random people!!! ... — Ashley Purdy

Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic". — Stephen Covey

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. — Muqtada Al Sadr

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Chairs are useful — Stephen Moffat