Chairs Quotes

• If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

  Robert De Niro

  Inspirational, Long, Ifs

  "Robert De Niro: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• 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

  Understanding, Mind, First Impression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.212, Parkstone International

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• Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Thrones, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.522, Library of America

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

  David Bowie

  Certain, Bother, Why Bother

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• I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Reality... What a Concept". Live comedy album by Robin Williams, 1979.

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• There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Empty

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• You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

  May Sarton

  Home, House, Doe

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• Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

  Graham Chapman

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• Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

  Ruth Reichl

  Food, Community, Pull Ups

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

  Warren Ellis

  Lying, Doe, Legs

  "Transmetropolitan. Happy Talk (issue #50)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Cooking, Tables

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  True Friend, Offering, Support

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1996). “Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship”, Rutledge Hill Press

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• writing = ass + chair

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Ass

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• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Home, Two

  Walden ch. 6 (1854)

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• We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing Up, Two, Doubt

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

  Bernard Williams

  Women, Men, Rooms

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• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

  Evan Davis

  Self, Expression, Law

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• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

  Le Corbusier

  Architecture, Sofas, Bourgeois

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

  Billy Joel

  Dirty, Found You, Quality

  Song: You May Be Right, Album: Glass Houses, 1980

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• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Heart, Emotional

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• All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Ties, Rope

  Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press

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

  Eoin Colfer

  Doctors, Artemis Fowl, Victorian

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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