Chair Quotes
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(You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains.)
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More Chair Quotes
Death should be a long, beautiful voyage and limitless vacations of the flesh.
tristan tzara— From a Dada poem, originally in French. La mort serait un beau long voyage et les vacances illimitees de la chair des structures et des os.1923 De nos oiseaux,'La mort de GuillaumeApollinaire'.
When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.
Andy Warhol— Ch. 10: Atmosphere
Want a towel on a chair In the sand by the sea, Want to look through my shades, And see you there with me.
Kenny Chesney— "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" (2002)
She marked thee there, 662 Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.
Alexander Pope— 1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.341-4.
Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully’s curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
mark akenside— "On a Sermon against Glory", Odes on Several Subjects (1745), Stanza ii.
If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?
michael badnarik— Constitution Class
In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair
phil ochs— "The Iron Lady" from I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965)
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin.
arthur rimbaud— Sweeter than apples to childrenThe green water spurted through my wooden hull.
— St. 5
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
josé saramago— Interview with Katherine Vaz, José Saramago, BOMB Magazine, June 2001.
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Sylvie Fleury et al. (2001), Sylvie Fleury: Identity, Pain, Astral Projection (exhib. cat., Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2001–2002), Paris: RMN (Réunion des musées nationaux) & Dijon: Presses du réel, ISBN 2-7118-4313-0 [ISBN 978-2-7118-4313-8]
Et tant que son coeur bat, tant que sa chair palpite, je n'admets pas qu'un être doué de volonté laisse en lui place au désespoir.
jules verne— While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.Ch. XLII in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
L'amour abstrait ne suffit pas à un homme pauvre et grand, il en veut tous les dévouements... La véritable épouse en cœur, en chair et en os, se laisse traîner là où va celui en qui réside sa vie, sa force, sa gloire, son bonheur.
honoré de balzac— Love in the abstract is not enough for a great man in poverty; he has need of its utmost devotion... She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
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 Christoph Lichtenberg— J 146 (Notebook J (1789))
There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Resignation, st. 1 (1849)
The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
james russell lowell— The Changeling, st. 7 (1879).
La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres .
stéphane mallarmé— The flesh is sorrowful, alas! And I've read all the books."Brise Marine", line 1 (1887), as translated in Mallarmé : The Poet and his Circle ([1999] 2005) by Rosemary Lloyd, p.70
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.
richard nixon— National Review (19 November 2001)
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
robert orben— Chicago Tribune staff (June 25, 1995) "Think About It", Chicago Tribune, p. 3.
By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all Presidents was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions.
— Bill Bryson, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Resignation.
But the grandsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still; There's a nameless grave on the battle-field, And a new one under the hill.
william winter— William Winter, After All.
If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.
— Hon. R. P. Flower, on the night of Mr. Cleveland's election as Governor of New York.
This seems to me to be one of those cases in which the Court is bound to arrive at a conclusion without having any satisfactory means of arriving at it. The only guide I have is this. I am entitled to sit in the testator's chair as he wrote his own will.
— Kekewich, J., Horlock v. Wiggins (1888), L. R. 39 C. D. 143.
It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.
— Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 291.
The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.
will carleton— Will Carleton, Farm Ballads, The Editor's Guests.
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
william makepeace thackeray— William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, The Thorn in the Cushion.
Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd? Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?
— King Richard, scene iv (Act IV)
The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble. See Shakespeare 764:23.
— 1922 The Waste Land, pt.2,'A Game of Chess'.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
a. j. p. taylor— "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14
