Quotes About Armchair

#1. I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. The painter's instrument
is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard

#3. I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

Alan Ball

#4. While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Anne Tyler

#5. It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

Benoite Groult

#6. Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

#7. By mid-June, the mercury had soared up to the nineties and lingered there, like a fat dowager in her favorite armchair.

Kat Ross

#8. She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her.

Roald Dahl

#9. A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking about comfort, necessarily, but support. A good writer might take you to strange and difficult places, but you're in the hands of someone you trust.

Brenda Walker

#10. The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

Gary Weiss

#11. I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.

Hilary Kornblith

#12. It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Alex Gibney

#13. I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end.

Sandra Gulland

#14. Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.

Michel Faber

#15. He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with stains the shapes of planets and an existential crisis. But he wouldn't want to sound too French about it.

Kevin Barry

#16. Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.

Isaac Asimov

#17. I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Nick Cave

#18. And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty space. You went back to where you came from just a few years ago.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Resa longed for the kitchen, always full of the humming of the oversize fridge, for mo's workshop in the garden, and the armchair in the library where you could sit and visit strange worlds without getting lost in them

Cornelia Funke

#20. Sometimes I get the sense that it's all "internal" ... Maybe that's why I lived alone and did nothing for three years ... (The man hardly ever washed, he didn't need a typewriter, all he had to do was sit in that shabby armchair for things to flee of their own accord)

Roberto Bolano

#21. ...sitting in David's armchair, contemplating the many books that lined his shelves, a thought occured to me. It was a very human thought; it surprised me, i checked myself for viruses.

Liz Moore

#22. So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#23. An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

David Bowie

#24. This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.

Antony Beevor

#25. I saw him ... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Dennis Nilsen

#26. Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

Juliette Binoche

#27. There is something horribly hypocritical about passing judgement on another human beings actions from the comfort and safety of an armchair

Daniel Allen Butler

#28. You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Jean De La Bruyere

#29. Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

Aesop Rock

#30. When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Pablo Picasso

#31. If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

Jodi Picoult

#32. Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.

A.A. Patawaran

#33. Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.

Sarah Kay

#34. Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

Nelson Mandela

#35. Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'

Mark Billingham

#36. As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

Sanober Khan

#37. he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.

William Meikle

#38. All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in.

J.R. Ward

#39. I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

Ayana Mathis

#40. Being outraged about two men or two women, it requires absolutely no work on the ground. So you can be outraged and you can be an armchair activist, engage in nothing and just simply get on the microphone and say, "I don't believe in X, Y, and Z, and it's terrible," and you can call them names.

Otis Moss III

#41. He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and reread very word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at the third chapter.

George Orwell

#42. When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.

Anthony Trollope

#43. Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#44. I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

Tom Hardy

#45. Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around naked and wearing a three-cornered hat.

Soren Kierkegaard

#46. Mom led Jaime down a hall of crystal cabinets and ushered him into the floral armchair that Theo had once purposely peed on as a kid. The pee story was the first out of their mom's mouth. Whatever. He'd been four. Mom should have given him the cookie.

Anyta Sunday

#47. My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

Audrey Niffenegger

#48. No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

Hilary Kornblith

#49. By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Ian Hacking

#50. Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing.

John Mortimer

#51. They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.

Neil Gaiman

#52. Below I describe two examples, one concerning self-awareness and the other culture, both concepts that, whenever mentioned in relation to animals, still send some scholars through the roof. Armchair

Frans De Waal

#53. Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

J.C. Ryle

#54. I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about Saddam Hussein, there would have been a rather abrupt "regime change" in Iraq long before now.

Christopher Hitchens

#55. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.

Paul Otlet

#56. What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

#57. I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

Henri Matisse

#58. He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him.

Edmund De Waal

#59. Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.

Hilary Kornblith

#60. Pearl the Wonder Dog was asleep on her back, in the armchair next to the fireplace, with her feet sticking up in the air.

Robert B. Parker

#61. Ancient and shriveled, many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead. He had simply got up to teach one day and left his body behind him in an armchair in front of the staffroom fire; his routine had not varied in the slightest since. Today

J.K. Rowling

#62. The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.

P.G. Wodehouse

#63. Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

Leslie Jamison

#64. To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

Orhan Pamuk

#65. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Robert Barr

#66. The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

#67. I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me.
I loaf and curl up my tail
I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch.
(From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP)

Henry N. Beard

#68. Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#69. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.

CJ Fosdick

#70. And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.

Karen Traviss

#71. A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

Le Corbusier

#72. When sitting in an armchair isn't enough ... I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and dream about travelling to other times, other places, I write about them instead. A most economical and safe form of time travel.

Anna Belfrage

#73. She surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.

Vladimir Nabokov

#74. And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter ... it fell softly ... softly ... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.

Antonia Michaelis

#75. A gentleman can't let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed."
"But you are not a gentleman," she pointed out. "You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land."
He tilted his head to consider that. "All right. You take the chair.

Christina Brooke

#76. One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

Jules Verne

#77. I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Stephen Fry

#78. Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.

Carl Froch

#79. I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

#80. I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

Hugh Jackman

#81. Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk.

Nick Cave

#82. surely you're enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.

Jeff VanderMeer

#83. Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the milky rainbow of the Wurlitzer, Richard was like a giant, welcoming ear. Or a reflecting device, beaming her best self back at her.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#84. Without leaving his armchair, without even touching her with his fingertips, he ordered her to kneel down in front of him, take him and caress his sex until he discharged in her mouth.

Pauline Reage

#85. Within the same hour as the murder took place, Isabel Trumbo sat in her armchair dozing, the Alaskan Outdoor magazine on her lap. Her kid sister Alma fidgeted in the other armchair, from time to time picking up her newspaper folded over to the day's crossword puzzle.

Ed Lynskey

#86. I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

Arthur Smith

#87. When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.

Stella Young

#88. Tiago decided he enjoyed armchair warfare. It was so comfortable, and there were pastries.

Thea Harrison

#89. Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Don Henley

#90. He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross,
Clearly used to silence and an armchair:
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Seamus Heaney

#91. I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

Tim Ferriss

#92. Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

Jenna Morasca

#93. A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

John Jay Chapman

#94. The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have ... excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

Anais Nin

#95. Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe.
From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor

Judith-Victoria Douglas

#96. Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

Scott Anderson

#97. Oh no! My subconscious slams down her Complete Works of Charles Dickens, leaps up from her armchair, and puts her hands on her hips.

E.L. James

#98. You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

Feargal Quinn

#99. Or like a poet woo the Moon,
Riding an armchair for my steed,
And with a flashing pen harpoon
Terrific metaphors of speed.

Roy Campbell

#100. Suffice it to say that a global theological discussion will have little patience for ivory-tower theology and armchair theologians aloof from the realities facing ordinary Christians.

Craig Ott