Chair Quotes - page 2

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
They look at me, and you can see they're looking at a ghost. They were all getting the K. C. Jeebies hardcore. Dave said, "She is so much like Kurt." They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I'd heard a million times. I was sitting in a chair, chain-smoking, looking down like this [affects total boredom]. And they went, "You are doing exactly what your father would have done." View quote
Frances Bean Cobain
You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair. View quote
Hoagy Carmichael
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
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. View quote
Martha Graham
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. View quote
Andy Warhol
You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains. View quote
Andy Warhol
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair. View quote
Robert Orben
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. (Albert Einstein)
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue. View quote
Richard Nixon
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. View quote
Mark Haddon
July 24, 6:03 A. M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live. View quote
Markus Zusak
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. View quote
Ruth Reichl
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play. View quote
Sam Shepard
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. View quote
Holly Black
(As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and cut an appreciative look to Nykyrian.) Dayum...woman be hot. (Syn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it. View quote
Georgette Heyer
His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair. "My enfant," he said, "duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbécile'." Léonie's twinkled irrepressibly. "I do," she said firmly. (Georgette Heyer)
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
When I'm 80 years old and sitting on my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will ask me: «After all this time?» and I'll say: «Always». View quote
Alan Rickman
Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
Don't kiss me,” she said warningly. "I don't intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me. View quote
Linda Howard