Chair Quotes

• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • High
  • Crime
  • Chair

• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

  

  Little Richard
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bridge

• I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked to her for a couple of minutes. My mom said she nearly fell off her chair, she was so excited.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Mom
  • Excited
  • Chair

• I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Moving

• The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Means
  • Chair

• Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Psychiatrist

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Progress
  • Lies
  • Tell

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• 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
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• 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
  • Want
  • Me
  • Chair

• 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
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Chair

• I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • Girl
  • Tried
  • Spinning

• He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • House
  • Way

• You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.

  

  Amanda Pays
  • Own
  • Fail
  • European

• I don’t think I’m in this game – the EDM, techno or electro game. I have the thing that I do and I try to do something different but I don’t want to try and find a place and just stay in my chair… I have no idea what I’m going to do, but even when I do know, I’m going to keep it to myself.

  

  Mike Levy
  • Different
  • Game
  • Techno

• Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Remember
  • Alone
  • Dirty

• What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Chair

• Arm chair warriors often fail.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Fail
  • Chair
  • Warriors

• Taha rose from his chair feeling angry for the first time since they...

  

  Zakaria Tamer
  • Feeling
  • Angry
  • Rose

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