Chairs famous quotes

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
-- Adam Garcia

#Clothes #Memento #Chairs

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

#Rooms #Chairs

What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.
-- Albert Fish

#Thrill #Chairs #Electric

Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.
-- Albert Fish

#Thrill #Anarchy #Chairs

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

#Reality #Copying #Chairs

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#People #Care #Chairs

Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!...
-- Ashley Purdy

#People #Tables #Chairs

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

#Worry #Chairs #Rocking Chairs

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Men #Easy #Chairs

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair
-- C. S. Lewis

#Wonder #Silver #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 #Typewriters #Chairs

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.
-- Celine Dion

#Fall #Falling Down #Chairs

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

#Names #Chairs #Ready

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

#Moving #People #Chairs

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

#Chairs

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
-- Donald Judd

#Ridiculous #Building #Chairs

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
-- Edward Bond

#Humanity #Chairs #Auschwitz

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
-- Eero Saarinen

#Legs #Chairs #Clear

As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
-- Ellen Tauscher

#Opportunity #House #Chairs

No one chair should be isolated ...
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Furniture #Chairs #Should

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
-- Etta James

#Dance #Want #Chairs

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

#Mother #Important #Chairs

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Writing #Stories #Chairs

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself
-- Finn Juhl

#Art #Space #Chairs

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
-- George Steiner

#Rewards #Students #Chairs

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!
-- Graham Chapman

#Chairs

A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.
-- Hans Wegner

#Beautiful #Sides #Chairs

The good chair is a task one is never completely done with
-- Hans Wegner

#Tasks #Done #Chairs

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.
-- Hippolytus of Rome

#Catholic #Church #Chairs

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.
-- Hoagy Carmichael

#Chairs

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

#Red #Chairs #Staring

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
-- Isobelle Carmody

#Life Is #Forget #Chairs

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
-- J. Edgar Hoover

#Debate #Crime #Chairs

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.
-- Jim Rohn

#Motivational #Progress #Chairs

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
-- Joyce Meyer

#Worry #Busy #Chairs

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.
-- Katherine Harris

#Effort #Campaigns #Chairs

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.
-- Kellan Lutz

#Winning #Chairs

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
-- Le Corbusier

#Architecture #Chairs #Sofas

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?
-- Leonore Fleischer

#Dog #Cat #Chairs

I’m on top of my green like a lawn chair
-- Lil Wayne

#Green #Chairs #Lawns

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

#Success #Class #Chairs

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.
-- Loretta Chase

#Chairs

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Fame #Easier #Chairs

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.
-- Martha Graham

#Past #Rocks #Chairs

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

#Radio #Astronomy #Chairs

Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
-- Milton H. Erickson

#Silence #Shut Up #Chairs

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
-- Muqtada al Sadr

#Government #Want #Chairs

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

#Profound #Said #Chairs

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.
-- Rainbow Rowell

#Chairs

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
-- Ralph Caplan

#Designer #Chairs

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
-- Ray Toro

#Girl #Spinning #Chairs

Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.
-- Richard Pryor

#Way #Lasts #Chairs

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
-- Robert De Niro

#Inspirational #Long #Chairs

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
-- Sam Mendes

#Want #Sometimes #Chairs

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
-- Saul Williams

#Song #Legislation #Chairs

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

#Chairs #Honestly #Thrown

Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought
-- Sydney Banks

#Real #Said #Chairs

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

I can win those four-chair turns all day.
-- Usher

#Winning #Four #Chairs

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 #Might #Chairs

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
-- W. S. Gilbert

#Matter #Tables #Chairs

Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
-- Wally Lamb

#Life Is #Chairs

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

#Summer #Chairs

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
-- William Butler Yeats

#Time #Fire #Chairs

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Journalism #Chairs

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.
-- Edna O'Brien

#Book #Space #Chairs

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.
-- John D'Agata

#Believe #Want #Chairs

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.
-- Mario Bellini

#Architect #Chairs

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

#Handbags #Empty #Chairs

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!
-- Red Buttons

#Mother #Dinner #Chairs

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

#Animal #Skins #Chairs