Seat Quotes

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. (George Carlin)
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Superman don't need no seat belt. View quote
Muhammad Ali
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. View quote
Julia Cameron
Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. View quote
William Wordsworth
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. View quote
Eliza Farnham
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. View quote
Jane Smiley
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front. View quote
E. Lockhart
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? View quote
Al Yankovic
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. (Adam Rickitt)
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all. View quote
Bobby Vinton
I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. View quote
David Morse
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending. View quote
Damon Hill
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. View quote
Helen Dunmore
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. View quote
Owen Hart
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? View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat. View quote
Bernard Baruch
Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat? View quote
Morrissey
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Count–ry member". I interjected "I remember". Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides. (Gough Whitlam)
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. View quote
Walter Winchell
Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.... I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands. View quote
Thomas Friedman