Chairs Quotes - Page 27

• Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

  Groucho Marx

  Money, War, Firefly

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

  J. D. Salinger

  Disappear

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• The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

  Wallace Tripp

  Inspiration, Drawing, Principles

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• Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

  Adyashanti

  Fall, Simple, Knowing

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

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• I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

  Steve Schirripa

  Daughter, Father, Light

  Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.

  Walton Goggins

  Morocco, Barns, Pottery

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• Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!

  Ashley Purdy

  Bvb, People, Black Veil Brides

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• That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Conceited, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.101, 谷月社

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• You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and been there a number of years, but for me I wanted to work at a club that was world class and at the very, very top.

  Brendan

  Team, Years, Class

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• There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

  Adam Hartung

  Innovation, Reorganization, Microsoft

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• The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Reality, Common Sense

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• My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Love, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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• I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Writing, Typewriters

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• I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.

  Kate Smith

  Dog, Home, Mean

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• Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.

  Anne Bishop

  White, Expression, Missing

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.178, Penguin

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Eye, Expression

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• Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

  Hippolytus of Rome

  Catholic, Church, Peter

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• The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

  Thomas Merton

  Believe, Angel, Grace

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• I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

  John T. Scopes

  Roles, Trials, Body

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• For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

  Morton Feldman

  Years, Rivals, Said

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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• Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Tables And Chairs, Justice, Church

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• There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dream, Memories, Typewriters

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• My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

  Niels Diffrient

  Lying, Two, Office

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