Seating Quotes

In the office there are about fifteen people whose attention is directed toward a table covered with the costly fabric [raw cotton]; one man is bent over the table and another is sort of seating on it – the buyer and the broker are discussing a sample. A painting of a vernacular subject, if there is such a thing, and I think by a better hand than most others (a size 40 canvas, I think). I'm planning another less complicated and more surprising yet, better art, in which everyone is in summer dress, the walls white, and a sea of cotton on the tables. (translation based on M. Kay's, in M. Gérin [ed.] and M. Kay, transl. 'Degas letters', Oxford, 1947, pp. 29-30, no. 2. (Edgar Degas)
Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself. View quote
Peter Greenaway
There are two things that need to be taken away. First the lies and this government which needs to follow the law and imprison those implicated in the coup. The chiefs are being used just like those that have been made to believe that there is $6million in the bank for them. This Bill was pushed by the SDL party, the very same people that supported what happened in 2000 and there are opportunists seating in the council looking to mislead the council. View quote
Frank Bainimarama
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration. View quote
J.R. Ward
Life is all about seating and lighting. View quote
Graydon Carter
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. View quote
Tom Hayden
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked. View quote
Taylor Schilling