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

  David Bowie

  Certain, Bother, Why Bother

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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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• There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Empty

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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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• Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

  Graham Chapman

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

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Stories, Draws

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

  Le Corbusier

  Architecture, Sofas, Bourgeois

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• The discontented man finds no easy chair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Easy, Discontent

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

  Elvis Presley

  Squares, Dancing, Use

  Song: Jailhouse Rock

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• Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

  Moliere

  Long, Desire, Arms

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• I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

  Neil Diamond

  Profound, Said, Heard

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• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Civilization, Choices

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.242, Vintage

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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