Chairs Quotes
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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
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
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
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
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with one pulse. — Louis MacNeice
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