Top 309 Chairs Quotes & Sayings

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

I do still collect chairs.

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs, though, go for much lower prices, and if you carry around a reference photo of the chairs you want, you may be able to build up a cut-price collection, chair by chair.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

Trees are essentially growing chairs. There are lots of primates that sit and sleep in them.

People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

I worked on USA Today as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

Chairs are like sculpture.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Maybe I can put it another way... Life, Charlie Brown, is like a deck chair." "Like a what?" "Have you ever been on a cruise ship? Passengers open up these canvas deck chairs so they can sit in the sun... Some people place their chairs facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they've been... Other people face their chairs forward... They want to see where they're going! On the cruise ship of life, Charlie Brown, which way is your deck chair facing?" "I've never been able to get one unfolded.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

The people stand up from the chairs when I hit good winners. I like to do that.

I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.

You can't sit on two chairs at once.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.