Chairs Quotes

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

You can't sit on two chairs at once.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

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

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I'm a small person put in this big chair.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

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.

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

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.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.