Chairs Quotes

• I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Obstacles
  • Hostility

• I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Feelings
  • Execution

• Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

  

  George Ella Lyon
  • Sound
  • Hello
  • Rocking

• I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Heaven
  • Bird
  • Beach

• I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Sleep
  • Enough
  • Chairs

• Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Loud
  • Chairs
  • Asses

• Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Individual
  • Fiction
  • Taste

• If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

  

  Michael Badnarik
  • Giving
  • Winning
  • Injection

• The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Father

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

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Mean
  • Made
  • Metaphor

• But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Shadow
  • Quiet
  • Chairs

• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Home
  • Flower
  • Silver

• A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Objects

• Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Sleep
  • Cat
  • Window

• Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Challenges
  • Faces
  • Answers

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

  

  Nancy Pearl
  • Performing
  • Laughed
  • Librarian

• When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Able
  • Someday
  • Chairs

• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Girl

• What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Paint
  • Direct
  • Empty

• Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Window
  • Doctors
  • Chairs

• I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

  

  Red Adair
  • Home
  • Retired
  • Cemetery

• I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Wine
  • Dinner
  • Evening

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