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You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair! -- Feargal Quinn
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. -- Anne Tyler
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales -- Don Henley
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. -- Nelson Mandela
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
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
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. -- James Thurber
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. -- Oscar W. Firkins
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
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
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. -- Roald Dahl
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
Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work. -- David S. Baxter
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
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
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
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
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
Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha. -- Andrew Bird
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist. -- Henri Matisse
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. -- V. S. Pritchett
When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. -- Mel Brooks
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. -- Maeve Binchy

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