Chair Quotes
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Want a towel on a chair In the sand by the sea, Want to look through my shades, And see you there with me.
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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'.
(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.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Marie Deparis (2009), "Mounir Fatmi: Gardons Espoir / Keeping Faith" (bilingual exhibition notice, as a retranslation from the French "On n'imagine pas le nombre de personnes qui accrocheraient chez elles le tableau de la chaise électrique, surtout si les coloris de la toile s'harmonisent avec les rideaux.")
You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron— 1999 At the launch of 'Britain in Europe', London,14 Oct.
They lead, as a matter of fact, an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
— 1933 On humorists. My Life and HardTimes, preface.
Jenny kissed me when we met,Jumping from the chair she sat in;Time, you thief, who love to getSweets into your list, put that in.Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,Say that health and wealth have missed me;Say I'm growing old, but addJenny kissed me.
leigh hunt— "Jenny Kissed Me", in The Monthly Chronicle (November 1838)
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.
— Quoted in "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women", p. 7 [1]
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.
Somebody has been sitting in my chair!
Robert Southey— "The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor.
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
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.
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
orson scott card— Chapter 13 (Seventh Son (1987))
Anna’s reaction is more complex than you might imagine, and it’s at such a moment you appreciate the woman in the writer-director’s chair. Women, I suspect, are more likely than men to view sex from the over-all perspective of what we may call their lives. In a country like Saudi Arabia, whose citizens express discomfort about men and women even attending movies together, I have little doubt which gender is more concerned.
roger ebert— Review of Humpday (22 July 2009)
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.
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
isaac leib peretz— Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.
If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
duke of edinburgh philip— 1986 statement as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)
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.
In our great hall there stood a vacant chair, Fashioned by Merlin ere he past away, And carven with strange figures; and in and out The figures, like a serpent, ran a scroll Of letters in a tongue no man could read. And Merlin called it "The Siege perilous," Perilous for good and ill; "for there," he said, "No man could sit but he should lose himself..."
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Idylls of the King, The Holy Grail
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
chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you are forced down.
— Terri Guillemets, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p.134
As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is, with the chair of Peter. For this, I know, is the rock on which the Church is built. … This is the ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. … And as for heretics, I have never spared them; on the contrary, I have seen to it in every possible way that the Church's enemies are also my enemies.
— Jerome, (405–420), Manual of Patrology and History of Theology.
