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Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales -- Don Henley
Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it. -- Aesop Rock
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. -- Leslie Jamison
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. -- Anne Tyler
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. -- Arthur Smith
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. -- Edward Carpenter
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. -- Stephen Fry
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. -- Nick Cave
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. -- James Thurber
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. -- John Jay Chapman
Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen. -- Jenna Morasca
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing. -- Tim Ferriss
When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest. -- Stella Young
Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring. -- Juliette Binoche
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing. -- Alan Ball
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse
Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair. -- Sarah Kay
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. -- Hugh Jackman
Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.' -- Mark Billingham
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books. -- Scott Anderson
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me. -- Elizabeth McCracken
The painterâ??s instrument is his armchair. -- Edouard Vuillard
You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair! -- Feargal Quinn
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. -- Audrey Niffenegger
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists. -- Jonathan Franzen
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. -- Nelson Mandela
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. -- Henri Matisse
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. -- Ian Hacking
Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea. -- George W. Bush
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. -- Pablo Picasso
It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard. -- Alex Gibney
I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on. -- Tom Hardy
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made. -- Ayana Mathis
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts. -- Kyriacos C. Markides
That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go. -- Laura Lee
I saw him...at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. -- Dennis Nilsen
Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world. -- Carl Froch
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory. -- J. C. Ryle
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing. -- Neil Gaiman
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising. -- Hilary Kornblith

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