Seats Quotes - Page 30

• The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Language, Endure

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

  Victor Borge

  Two, Musical, Three

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• You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

  Richard Branson

  Two, Essentials, Insult

  Richard Branson (1998). “Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way”, Crown Pub

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• It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.

  Skip Horack

  Book, Voice, Vision

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• White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

  Mellody Hobson

  Men, White Man, America

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• All socialists have bad backs because we slouch - except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms. Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Judgemental, News, Body

  "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation", BBC Radio 4, 2007.

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• I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.

  Clark Gable

  Ideas, White, News

  "Fictional character: Peter Warne". "It Happened One Night", www.imdb.com. 1934.

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• I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

  Rachael Ray

  Writing, Men, Hot

  "Anthony Bourdain Roast: Star Gets Bashed By Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri And More At New York Wine & Food Festival (NSFW)" by Carey Polis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.

  Bill Cosby

  Men, White Man, Sitting

  "Obama Panders to Prove His Blackness, Echoes Bill Cosby But Nobody Notices". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 5, 2007.

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• I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Faces, Difficult Times, Film

  "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 17, 2012.

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• A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

  Andie MacDowell

  Country, Giving Up, Women

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• Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

  Paul Reiser

  Dream, People, Fields

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Thinking, Car

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• I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Fame, Restaurants

  Q magazine Interview, April 1990.

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• I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!

  The Miz

  Kids, Men, Should Have

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• Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

  Dannii Minogue

  Fall, The End Of The Day, Diners

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• Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Hurt, Truth, Reality

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• I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Couple, Blow, Years

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• I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Hearing, Empty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, World, Requirements

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

  George Carlin

  Home, Gun, Safety

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Memories, Slides

  Roger Ebert (1985). “A Kiss Is Still a Kiss”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

  Farrah Fawcett

  Dresses, Toilet Seat, Shy

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