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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. -- Henry David Thoreau
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -- Lenny Bruce
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans. -- Malin Akerman
Chairs are like sculpture. -- Robert Wilson
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. -- Le Corbusier
Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow. -- Jarod Kintz
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair. -- Brian Clough
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair. -- Neta Jackson
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. -- May Sarton
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. -- Glenn Turner
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. -- W. C. Fields
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. -- Marshall McLuhan
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? -- Albert Einstein
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? -- Nicholson Baker
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. -- Stephen King
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
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. -- Bill Cosby
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. -- Liam Gallagher
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. -- Nile Rodgers
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly. -- Ellen Tauscher
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
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
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them. -- Stephen Fry
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 do still collect chairs. -- Robert Wilson
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? -- William Vickrey
Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs. -- Candice Olson
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs. -- Jean Kerr
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. -- Charles D. Broad
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors. -- Jessica Savitch
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. -- Fran Lebowitz
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. -- Henry Villard
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs. -- Olivia Wilde
I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal. -- Jim Gaffigan
I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career. -- Oprah Winfrey
Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you. -- Mike Birbiglia
Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. -- Tim Vine
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. -- Mark Burnett
I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right? -- Denis Leary
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. -- Douglas Adams
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
Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. -- Simon Sinek
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for. -- Bobbi Brown
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance. -- Lady Gregory
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. -- Karl Shapiro
You can't sit on two chairs at once. -- Andrei Sakharov
15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs. -- John Cena
I don't want to speak to two empty chairs. -- Roger Clemens
There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs. -- Bill Johnson
Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs -- Muhammad Ali
If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs. -- Ralph Caplan
Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels. -- Ryan Mecum
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? -- Nikolai Gogol
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. -- William Cowper
I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." -- Robin Williams
Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!... -- Ashley Purdy
Yeah, I enjoy musical chairs. My furniture is deaf, so it gets rather interesting. -- Jarod Kintz
We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. -- Elizabeth Vargas
Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. -- Elizabeth Vargas
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. -- W.S. Gilbert
Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa? -- Benjamin Carson
Two empty chairs are not a good use of space. Fill them up with love. -- Jarod Kintz
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use. -- Jacob Braude
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs. -- Jean Kerr
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. -- Gerard Way
Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful. -- Pharrell Williams
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic". -- Stephen Covey
One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs -- David Hilbert
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse. -- Louis MacNeice
We made love like two folding lawn chairs. We were both motionless, but the possibility of movement permeated the moment. -- Jarod Kintz
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. -- Paul Krugman
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. -- George Steiner
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. -- Alain de Lille
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. -- Thom Yorke
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. -- Karl Kraus
I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry. -- Jose Carreras
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. -- Nancy Pearl
We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. -- Michael Moorcock
My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs. -- Rodney Dangerfield
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. -- Adam Garcia
The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. -- Bernard Malamud
Her and I, we have a two chairs and a table kind of love. You should pull up a feeling and have a seat. -- Jarod Kintz
There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. -- Anne Northup
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. -- Muqtada al Sadr
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
But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table. -- Sebastian Horsley
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images. -- Sam Mendes
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small. -- Jim Rohn
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
I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue -- Mercedes McCambridge
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods. -- Edward Lear
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She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season -- P. G. Wodehouse
I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. -- John Fletcher
How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us? -- Ted Nugent
Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime. -- Jarod Kintz
We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life. -- Paola Antonelli
Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table. -- Emily Post
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. -- Gloria Steinem
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read. -- Donita K. Paul
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small -- Albert Einstein
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. -- Lawrence Anthony
When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog. -- Elizabeth Bowen
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic. -- Stephen Covey

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