Top 769 Tables And Chairs Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

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?

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

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

You can't sit on two chairs at once.

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

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

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.

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

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

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

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

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

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.

My worst job would have to be waiting tables at a restaurant in N.Y. My boss was evil.

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

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

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

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

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

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

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

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

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

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

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

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

I think the hardest part of being in the band and trying to make it is waiting, you know? I think, to be fair, if we would have gotten a big break early on, it would have been wasted on us. All of that perseverance you often learn by failing. We went from barely being able to book anywhere to being nominated for Grammys. It's a snowball effect that happens to a lot of bands. I think the hardest part is having a side job: bussing tables, bartending, and waiting tables to make ends meet. Sometimes they are really worth doing, because one day things might actually work out in your favor.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

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

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

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

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

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

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

Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

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

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

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

My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

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

When I make chairs, they have legs; they can go anywhere in the world. Interiors are a different responsibility. A house is a representation of where you are, and it has to be right for the place.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

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

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

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

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.