Top 100 A Chair Quotes
#1. Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)
Rebecca Goldstein
#2. Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
Wally Lamb
#3. The portuguese never put anything behind them except a chair to eat lunch.
Robert Wilson
#4. You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time ...
Steven Wright
#5. Satan's warming me a throne, that's how long [I've been watching you]. Not a chair, not a seat at the bar. The big guy's got a throne with my name on it.
Sarah Winter
#6. We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
Nate Berkus
#7. There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#8. The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I'm absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don't go, there'll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.
Lexis De Rothschild
#9. I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
Niels Diffrient
#11. My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'
Graeme Obree
#12. I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
Jasper Fforde
#13. Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.
Robin Hobb
#14. The big male gestured to a chair in the corner. "Mind if I sit?"
She nodded her acquiescence. "Go right ahead. That chair has seen more tail than a rock star lately.
Elisabeth Staab
#15. I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.
Suzanne Collins
#16. A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
Anne Bishop
#17. Okay, so you want your other nipple pierced," she said pulling up a chair and getting her supplies ready.
"She wants my other nipple pierced," he replied winking at.
Abbi Glines
#18. A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite ... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
Charles Dance
#19. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.
Brooke Burns
#20. When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
Robert Lembke
#21. Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.
Demetri Martin
#22. I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.
John D'Agata
#23. You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.
Ann Patchett
#24. A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#26. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
William Shakespeare
#28. We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.
Ferran Adria
#29. I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
Henry Miller
#30. If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem."
Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you.
Christina Dodd
#31. I was Halfway to Kale when something hit me. A chair. Someone had thrown a chair at me. What the hell was this, WWE?
Jus Accardo
#32. I remember going into Steve [Jobs]'s house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.
John Sculley
#33. Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would be child abuse, DO NOT TAPE YOUR CHILDREN TO CHAIRS. If you want to tape your baby dolls to chairs, be my guest. I am fairly certain that there isn't like a Cabbage Patch CPS.
E. A. Davis
#34. She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.
Loretta Chase
#35. He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
William Butler Yeats
#36. I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.
Mitch Hedberg
#37. In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Rich Lowry
#38. I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.
Sebastian Bach
#39. I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
Ruth Rendell
#40. Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
Merlin Mann
#41. Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.
Rebecca Solnit
#42. Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
Will Rogers
#43. In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.
Ben Aaronovitch
#44. Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.
Drake
#45. I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.
Red Tash
#46. Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me.
Suzanne Collins
#47. She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.
Siri Hustvedt
#48. Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
Jose Saramago
#49. People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
Don Rickles
#50. I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
Robert Duvall
#51. An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth - They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick
Janice Thompson
#52. I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#53. She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.
Guy De Maupassant
#54. Just before I drop into a chair in my English classroom I pick up my phone and send Nolan a text.
"What if there's a day when I can't be there with my mom when she's at home?"
I don't even have to wait thirty seconds before he sends his reply:
"Then I'll be there
Paige McKenzie
#55. Nonono, Nick,' Gilpin interrupted. He pulled a chair up to the table and sat on it backward. I wondered if cops actually did that. Or did some clever actor do that, and then cops began doing it because they'd seen the actors playing cops do that and it looked cool?
Gillian Flynn
#56. Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.
David Allen
#57. You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.
J.D. Salinger
#58. For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard
#59. Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
#60. If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
Timothy Noah
#61. Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
Gary Lutz
#62. Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
Alan Cooper
#63. Welcome to my dungeon. It's not much," Linc said as he cleaned off a chair for her. "But ... it's
not much." He dumped the files and books on the floor.
"The nice thing about starting at the bottom is, you can't get any lower."
"If I'm a good boy, I'll get my own stapler
Nora Roberts
#64. Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.
J.R. Ward
#65. When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7
Sharon Kay Penman
#66. I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look
like a chair.
Richard Schultz
#67. If a chair or a building is not functional ... it is ridiculous.
Donald Judd
#68. He would rock back and forth in his chair, making sure it squeaked ominously. He always found a chair that squeaked ominously. He was so good at squeaking ominously that he managed to make year-six teacher number two burst into tears.
Adrienne Kress
#69. Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
Agatha Christie
#70. As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
Henry Beston
#71. Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being ... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
Edvard Munch
#72. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
Meg Tilly
#73. I was creeped out, though and dragged a chair into the bathroom and wedged it against the door so no one could come in without me knowing. That was the very reason why I had a see-through vinyl shower curtain. Norman Bates was never going to get the best of me.
-Jory
Mary Calmes
#74. It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.
George Eliot
#75. All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.
Vasily Rozanov
#76. Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
Lois Lowry
#77. The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
#78. He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.
A. Ashley Straker
#79. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.
Lemony Snicket
#80. You keep out of my bed, said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.
John Steinbeck
#81. The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.
Will Carleton
#82. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
Vidal Sassoon
#83. Stefan felt around him for a chair, because he dare not take his eyes off the sleeping beauty before him. He finally managed to grab at something and sat.
Rachel Van Dyken
#84. During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.
Gloria Steinem
#85. I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.
Peter Hook
#86. Only one person in the room didn't cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.
Anna McPartlin
#87. I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.'
Huh. As if.
Helen Fielding
#88. I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Ingmar Bergman
#89. There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
David Zayas
#90. Thank you for your attempt at trying to be thoughtful while stealing shit from me." He picked up a crossword booklet from a chair and tossed it into the trash. "And for filling out my fucking crossword puzzles without me having to ask. I'm not sure how I've ever survived this long without you.
Whitney G.
#91. The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
G.H. Hardy
#92. A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.
Julia Peterkin
#93. Why don't you grab a chair," I joked, "and sit down!"
And then, like she so often did, Mary smiled.
Luis Carlos Montalvan
#94. People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
Arne Jacobsen
#95. He pointed to a chair opposite him. "Sit." Another sip. "I'm hiding from commitment."
"Who's evil enough to name a girl that?" I asked, and sat down.
Isabelle Crusoe
#96. If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
Cameron Diaz
#97. I wanted to tell you something, she says, but it slipped under a chair.
Swoosie Kurtz
#98. If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.
Mona Simpson
#99. I love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling. A book is a sensual thing. You sit in a chair with it or like me you take it to bed and it's, well, enveloping. Weird I am, I know(...)You either get it or you don't.
Niall Williams
#100. Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
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