Chairs Quotes - Page 9

• I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Running, Fall, Python

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want the viewer to have a very informative and entertaining listen. I want them to feel like they've pulled up a chair right next to us. I hope to bring to the telecast what I call 'buddy information' - where you hear something and maybe the next day you say to your buddy, 'Hey, I heard something about this player or this team,' and they pass it on by word of mouth.

  Tom Verducci

  Team, Player, Next Day

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• A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

  Margaret Benson

  Nice, Cat, Meat

  Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”

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• Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.

  Emo Philips

  Girlfriend, Forks, Restaurants

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• The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Kids, Men

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.

  Demetri Martin

  Crazy, Glue, Nails

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012

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• Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, One Day, Empty

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• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

  Unknown

  Successful, Warrior, Men

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• At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.

  Michael J. Nelson

  Two, Sitting, May

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• I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, Government, Should Have

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

  George Burns

  Song, Sitting Down, Great Inventions

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

  Diana Rigg

  Stupid, Men, Doors

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• I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

  Stephen Bruner

  Teeth, Swallowing, Bass

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

  Stephen Covey

  Management, Individual, Effective Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.121, Mango Media Inc.

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• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  Michael Ironside

  Running, Father, Gun

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I'm out in the ring, Shawn Michaels turns to me and says, 'Hey, I got a couple of vertebrae out. Would you mind puttin 'em in with that chair?' He turns his back, I whack him and all of a sudden I'm a bad guy.

  Kevin Nash

  Couple, Guy, Mind

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• One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

  Luanne Rice

  Mother, Beach, Memories

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• During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Attitude, Violence, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

  Alan Cooper

  Tables, Sandpaper, Method

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• If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

  Pat Summitt

  Responsibility, Successful, Want

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.32, Crown Business

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• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  Nate Berkus

  Energy, Pieces, Bronze

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• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Safety, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1987). “The Naval War of 1812, Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans”, Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press

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