Quotation Explorer - 'Chair'

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. - Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Get me a real chair - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Is that vodka?' Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. 'Excuse me, your majesty,' he squeaked, 'do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit! - Mihail Bulhakov
we have faith to sit in a chair, and continue to believe in its foundation that holds us up. If we have faith in God, the foundation will hold us both up, so its our decision to take the seat and trust him. - Trae R. Miller
Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant? - Virginia Woolf
from my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing - Brandon Scott Gorrell
A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. - Katrina Mayer
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman
I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?". - Clayton Montgomery
Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric. - Agatha Christie
Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. - Mark Williams
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. - Arnold 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
Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. - Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies. - Amit Kalantri
The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and I. - Edna Moore Schultz
Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would be child abuse, DO NOT TAPE YOUR CHILDREN TO CHAIRS. If you want to tape your baby dolls to chairs, be my guest. I am fairly certain that there isn't like a Cabbage Patch CPS. - E. A. Davis
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. - May Sarton
I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice. - Alice Sebold
I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe. - Frederik Pohl
There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do. - Sarah Manguso
Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool. - Ann Beattie
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening
She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears. - Ali Smith
Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair. - Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
I sprayed my dog with off and he still sits in my favorite chair!! - Neil Leckman
Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck. - Jaeda DeWalt
My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel. - Stewart Lee
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee
They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world. - Anna M. Aquino
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. - Georgann Low
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. - Shirley Chisholm
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. - Walter Winchell
I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see? - Jasleen Kaur GumberKaur Gumber
A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes. - Mary Oliver
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. - Mark Twain
Some say we’re already damned, Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. So you’re too late to send him to Hell. -- BLOOD KNOT - Tracy Cooper-Posey
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