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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging chair quotes, chair sayings, and chair proverbs.
Famous Chair Quotes
- “If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.” ~ Robert De Niro
- “Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I wonder what chairs think about all day: “Oh, here comes another asshole.”” ~ Robin Williams
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“Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.” ~ David Bowie
- “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” ~ Stephen King
- “A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.” ~ May Sarton
- “There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan , Empty chair quotes
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“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” ~ Ruth Reichl
- “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” ~ Glenn Turner
- “Bring out… The Comfy Chair!!!!” ~ Graham Chapman
- “It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.” ~ W. S. Gilbert
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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.” ~ Bernard Williams
- “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
- “No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.” ~ George S. Patton
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“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.” ~ Le Corbusier
- “The discontented man finds no easy chair.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Hey buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!” ~ Moliere
- “I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.” ~ Neil Diamond
- “Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there’s gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.” ~ David Bowie
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“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
- “There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “People buy a chair, and they don’t really care who designed it.” ~ Arne Jacobsen
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“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?” ~ Nicholson Baker
- “Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There’s nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.” ~ Amanda Pays
- “For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don’t have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.” ~ Sam Shepard
- “The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.” ~ Frances Perkins
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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” ~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- “All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn’t it be loverly? Lots of choc’late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin’ lots of heat. Warm face, warm ‘ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn’t it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin’ abso-bloomin’-lutely still! I would never budge ’til spring crept over my window sill. Someone’s head restin’ on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn’t it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “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
- “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
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“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
- “Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “When the grandmothers of today hear the word ‘Chippendales,’ they don’t necessarily think of chairs.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.” ~ Peter Hain
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“Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!” ~ Warren Ellis
- “Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.” ~ Alberto Giacometti
- “But I don’t think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.” ~ Anthony Caro
- “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
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“The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover
- “Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.” ~ Andre Gide
- “In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.” ~ Martin Ryle
- “I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.” ~ Steve Ballmer
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“As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.” ~ Henry Beston
- “My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
- “It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” ~ Walter Winchell
- “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
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“Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere” ~ Ashwin Sanghi
- “When you say “bank,” a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They’re the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don’t care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.” ~ Michael Hudson
- “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
- “Hell, I’m an old man. I’m 70 years old. I’m supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.” ~ M. Emmet Walsh , Rocking chair quotes
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“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
- “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 am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.” ~ Brian Clough
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“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
- “I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.” ~ Gloria Swanson
- “Don’t get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it’s not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you’ve got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.” ~ Puff Daddy
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“Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.” ~ Elizabeth Vargas
- “If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.” ~ Guy Forget
- “When I’m 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I’m going to feel old or forget my younger days.” ~ Patty Duke
