Chair Quotes

“Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle

“When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When Penny left a banana on her desk as an offering, Jude rejected it. She refused it by putting it on Penny's work chair, so when Penny went to write, she sat on it. As tiny passive-aggressive revenges went, it was adorable, and it killed Penny that they couldn't laugh about it.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“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.”
― H.R.H. Prince Philip

“She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker

“The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“The empty chair in your heart should remain empty forever rather than someone unworthy sitting in there”
― Munia Khan, Fireclay

“Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

“Le mystère de la chair est le mystère du salut.”
― François Mauriac

“1. Interrupt the interrupters.....

If a woman is cut off in conversation, cut off the interruptor: 'Olivia was speaking. Let's let her finish her thought first.”
― Joanne Lipman, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

“After a Turkey carpet and dining-room table, there's nothing so comfy as a footstool. A chair always makes me feel respectable, and dull.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock

“Do you want to sit down?”

She perched her butt on the edge of his desk, remembering alittle too late that she wasn’t wearing any underwear.

Easton levelled her with a cold expression. “On a chair, Carter.”

“Right.”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn’t enjoy jokes about his name much.”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he lazily …”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“I am a chairperson, but without a chair.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said that in a meeting, when a woman speaks, 'many of the male board members start to withdraw physically, they start to look at their papers, to look at the floor...and you need to disrupt that.' she doesn't hesitate to call them out on it: 'When you're the chair, you say, "Somebody's talking. You should be listening.”
― Joanne Lipman, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

“Just sitting on the chair is no guarantee of holding it. Holding on to it needs the most running around.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“You’ll be sorry to worry when you’ve done your best; instead pull an easy chair and cheer yourself.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Your faith is on your chair, my faith is on my foot”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The sword of love pierces even the flesh. (L'épée de l'amour Transperce même la chair)”
― Charles de Leusse

“When we look at an empty chair and say 'the chair is empty', the 'emptiness' gets angry because the chair is actually not empty, the 'emptiness' is sitting there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A sofa will give you comfort, but a chair will give you style.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Furnished in elaborate velvets, silks, and brocades, it's a riot of scarlet and deep blues and greens, everything rich and dark, like overripe fruit. The patterns on the material are the sorts of things I have become accustomed to- intricate braids of briars, leaves that might also be spiders when you looked at them from another angle, and a depiction of a hunt where it is unclear which of the creatures is hunting the other.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I am a chairperson but without a chair.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Future generations will remember me not for sitting on that chair, but for getting up when the time came.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“I'd sit in that chair without complexity, without any sense of consciousness even, that there I was, sitting in it. It was just a chair; not notable to be registered as tormenting to the psyche. I'd lower myself in, then, when done, I'd higher myself out of it. All normal. Not now, daughter. Now, there's a searing mental pain anytime I have doings with the chair because slightly my rear brushes the armrest of one side as I'm lowering myself in or highering myself out of it, or else my rear brushes similarly the armrest of the other side. These armrests aren't capable of articulation," she stressed. "They're stuck fast to the body because it's a one-piece chair and of course the chair itself can't have gotten smaller which means my rear's gotten bigger but it's gotten bigger without the concomitant modification to a new way of negotiating furniture and instead is still acting from the retention of the memory of how smaller in the olden days it used to be." I opened my mouth, not sure, to say something - or maybe just to have it hang open. "But understand, daughter," went on ma, "I'm not saying my rear cannot now fit in the chair because the chair's become too tight for it. It can still fit in. It's just that now it encompasses a certain amount of extra inches or fractions of inches to which it has never acclimatised and which in the old days didn't used to be.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“If a ‘what’ versus a ‘who’ is sitting on the throne of your life, you would be wise to get the ‘what’ off the throne. And in doing so, you would be particularly wise to realize that there’s only one ‘Who’ that can keep the ‘what’s’ out of the chair.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“It is useless when the chair is full, the chair must be empty so that you can sit in it! The void is an opportunity presented to you to fill it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You don't need a confrontation. You don't need a PowerPoint, a thesis defense, or a tearful monologue in a rocking chair. You need one calm, repeated sentence that will eventually carve a new groove in the record: Mom, this isn't about you.”
― Veronica Fishbane, Dear Toxic Parent: A Ruthless Little Manual for the Once-Obedient Child