“I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I’m up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.”
― Adam Mansbach
“Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.”
― Alan Garner
“The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.”
― Alvar Aalto
“Somebody said, ‘You may be a committee chair.’ I don’t think so. I don’t think anybody would want me that much.”
― Angus King
“Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite – and that’s their only objective. You can’t really move or eat. You’re just stuck there. It’s pressure, constant pressure.”
― Annabella Sciorra
“But I don’t think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.”
― Anthony Caro
“When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn’t understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it’s for, why it exists, why it needs its money.”
― Anthony Minghella
“It’s absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may – may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it’s clear that – that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.”
― Antonin Scalia
“People buy a chair, and they don’t really care who designed it.”
― Arne Jacobsen
“But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist’s chair.”
― Augusten Burroughs
“Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke’s chair. The only wrong answer is, ‘Who’s Bernanke?’.”
― Austan Goolsbee
“I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.”
― Ben Bernanke
“The discontented man finds no easy chair.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.”
― Bernard Williams
“I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, ‘The Chair’, ’cause it’s basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.”
― Blake Shelton
“I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.”
― Bob Graham
“I was so nervous on the night of my honeymoon, I put my pants to bed, and I hung over a chair.”
― Bobby Heenan
“It’s really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.”
― Brad Pitt
“When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.”
― Brian Clough
“I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.”
― Brooke Burns
“I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.”
― Brooke Burns
“I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.”
― Bruce Forsyth
“I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.”
― Buddy Lester
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.”
― Cameron Diaz
“When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it’s not often.”
― Celine Dion
“I don’t like to fly. What’s it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs… I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.”
― Chanel Iman
“For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That’s all there is to it.”
― Charlaine Harris
“We’ve got to protect the nursery schools. I’m chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I’d be worried about the socialising skills of children.”
― Colin Salmon
“I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.”
― Cyrus Broacha
“I’m 43. I’m not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.”
― Damien Hirst
“I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.”
― Dannii Minogue
“I couldn’t sit in a chair in an office all day.”
― Danny Meyer
“As a composer and as a musician I’m a true believer – and this is not to be overly diplomatic – I’m a believer that there’s artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There’s art in absolutely everything.”
― Darren Criss
“There’s not too many things I’m afraid of, but I’m not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.”
― David Zayas
“You can sit in the chair and do the workout. There’s no other program in the world that is like DDP YOGA.”
― Diamond Dallas Page
“I’ve been performing since 1955. I’m going to have to keep performing till I die because I’m not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol’ beer belly.”
― Dick Dale
“I’m not drunk onstage, although I’ve done that a couple of times when I was younger. It’s partly just the way I talk – I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I’m your 150-year-old grandmother.”
― Dylan Moran
“I have the privilege of being the vice chair of the World Economic Forum’s real estate council. In that role, I review a lot of economic data and original research from around the world.”
― Dylan Taylor
“As Chair of the Broadband and Technology Task Force, I will strive to ensure that legislative and regulatory policy making on these rapidly evolving services takes fully into account the needs of the Latino community.”
― Eduardo Bhatia
“Humanity’s become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”
― Edward Bond
“I’ve been in the director’s chair for ‘Battlestar Galactica’ since its first season. I directed the only comedy that’s ever been done in Galactica history.”
― Edward James Olmos
“I’m honored to sit on the House Intelligence Committee and am proud to chair the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.”
― Elise Stefanik
“Do not sit down in Satan’s easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.”
― Ellen G. White
“A standard day usually starts very early – 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.”
― Emily Berrington
“They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I’m still vulgar. I’m vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I’ve got to do something.”
― Etta James
“The first thing I said if I sat on the Iron Throne would probably be, ‘Ouch!’ It’s actually painful because it’s made of swords. But my first Royal Edict would be, ‘Somebody get rid of this damn chair!’”
― Eugene Simon
“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
“Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it’s cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.”
― Fernando Botero
“I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.”
― Francisco Costa
“A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.”
― Fredric Jameson
“At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung’s Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.”
― Gary Hamel
“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Obama’s just a puppet – he’s a puppet in a chair.”
― Ghostface Killah
“I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.”
― Gian Carlo Menotti
“I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.”
― Gillian Jacobs
“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”
― Glenn Turner
“I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.”
― Gloria Swanson
“We got tables they’re going through constantly, chair shots, all this, very dangerous maneuvers where you can possibly break your neck or something like that.”
― Goldust
“It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.”
― Gregory Hines
“I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair – which she regards as hers, of course – I tend to leave her there and take the other one.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay
“Praying is like a rocking chair – it’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.”
― Gypsy Rose Lee
“One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we’re making progress; but Huey’s chair’s empty.”
― H. Rap Brown
“There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – I’ll be needing that to die in.”
― Helen Hayes
“It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.”
― Heywood Broun
“The magic word ‘Shakespeare’ always freezes you in your chair.”
― Howard Jacobson
“An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper – probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.”
― Isabella Bird
“The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.”
― J. Edgar Hoover
“Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It’s a bit like being in a psychiatrist’s chair – but more enjoyable.”
― Jack Whitehall
“I love to be challenged, and I’m never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.”
― Jaime Camil
“I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I’ll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I’ll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.”
― Jake Arrieta
“As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.”
― Jan Hus
“Four legs on a chair, to me, represent a strong foundation and always knowing where I come from.”
― Jason Derulo
“I’ve rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.”
― Jeff Hardy
“President Obama has asked me to chair his new President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.”
― Jeffrey R. Immelt
“I did grieve a bit when I wasn’t having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.”
― Jennifer Saunders
“I’ve been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.”
― Jeremy Corbyn
“We’re all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.”
― John Hurt
“I can’t tell you how many spot shows little Johnny Nitro, like, pulled the chair out in the arena in Shelbyville Fair and did a moonsault only to get chewed out by Rip Rogers and Jim Cornette about it. I mean, I did years of it.”
― John Morrison
“Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.”
― Jonathan Maberry
“Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs, though, go for much lower prices, and if you carry around a reference photo of the chairs you want, you may be able to build up a cut-price collection, chair by chair.”
― Judith Miller
“Blowouts, manicures, and massages are my little indulgences; I get them whenever I can. The chair massage during a manicure is a must, even if it’s only 10 minutes. The ones in the back, though, on the bed where you can get a proper massage, make all the difference.”
― Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn’t have done it without the pill.”
― Kim Hunter
“It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage – and I had to learn everything.”
― Laurence Olivier
“I’m not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn’t made or a chair isn’t tucked into the table.”
― Leandra Medine
“When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,’ or whatever. That’s how we connect, right?”
― Lennon Parham
“I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.”
― Luanne Rice
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
― Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“As chair of the CBC, I will do all I can to be supportive of Congressman Conyers.”
― Marcia Fudge
“The whole thing is you don’t want to be pigeon-holed as ‘Oh, he’s a guy in a wheel chair. He’s very fragile. You better watch out.’”
― Mark Zupan
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.”
― Marshall McLuhan
“In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.”
― Martin Ryle
“I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.”
― Mary Jo White
“It’s not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.”
― Matt Nagle
“A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.”
― May Sarton
“Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.”
― Michael Ritchie
“My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.”
― Mildred Dresselhaus
“I don’t want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don’t want to be controlled by the U.S.”
― Muqtada al Sadr
“Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.”
― Nancy Gibbs
“We’re not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.”
― Nate Berkus
“When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.”
― Nate Berkus
“I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.”
― Nguyen Cao Ky
“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?”
― Nicholson Baker
“I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I’m comfortable in my computer chair.”
― PartyNextDoor
“During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair.”
― Patrick Stewart
“I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.”
― Peter Hain
“I’ve stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.”
― Peter Hook
“The hardest thing I do on stage is to self-induce amnesia. I want to go on every night and say, ‘I’ve never sat in this chair. I’ve never been in this room.’”
― Peter MacNicol
“When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee’s ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.”
― Raja Krishnamoorthi
“I would rather not have contentious interviews. I’d rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.”
― Rand Paul
“I’ve got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I’m always going to the cemetery.”
― Red Adair
“In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.”
― Rich Lowry
“If things go right, maybe I’ll chair the Appropriations Committee.”
― Richard Shelby
“The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan’s re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter’s very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn’t win a second term.”
― Rick Perlstein
“If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.”
― Robert De Niro
“I sat in the barber’s chair in David Miller’s makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That’s how I started to find the voice of Freddy.”
― Robert Englund
“I have had more honors than I’ve deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, ‘Well, I’m going to retire.’ But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don’t let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.”
― Robert H. Schuller
“When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.”
― Robert Redford
“Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.”
― Robin Day
“My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
― Rodney Dangerfield
“I’m a Republican; I’d say I’m a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.”
― Ronna McDaniel
“A lot of times, with campaigns or parties, things are cyclical. We need a long-term strategy on how we continue to engage that goes beyond chair to chair. Always, you are balancing resources with your strategy because you have to win elections.”
― Ronna McDaniel
“I’m too frightened to go on ‘Celebrity Mastermind.’ You really are shown up. Just you and a chair – there’s no way out.”
― Sarah Alexander
“Legislation won’t necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.”
― Saul Williams
“My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.”
― Selenis Leyva
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
― Shirley Chisholm
“I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.”
― Steve Ballmer
“I wrote ‘The Hunger Games’ in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.”
― Suzanne Collins
“I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don’t remember the first time I played bass.”
― Thundercat
“McCain is completely against the sequester. It was one thing when we had a Democratic chair who was against it – all the Democrats were against it. But to have a Republican chair who is outspoken and strong against the sequester, who has the credentials in military issues – who is going to challenge him?”
― Tim Kaine
“If Romney were a chair, he’d be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.”
― Timothy Noah
“I think it’s possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.”
― Tom Graves
“I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.”
― Tony Bradman
“Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.”
― Travis Barker
“I don’t sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.”
― Vidal Sassoon
“I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.”
― W. C. Fields
“I play a little bit of everything. I beat on the walls. I whistle. I scream. I go outside and scream because it sounds cool when it’s recorded. I play drums on a chair. I snap, clap… just anything to build the track and make it feel like I want it to.”
― Walker Hayes
“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
“In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn’t home, we’d just climb into the chair and let it envelop us.”
― Wendell Pierce
“Failure’s a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something… If you really don’t want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don’t go out and do anything.”
― Whitney Wolfe Herd
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