Quotes with chair

  • 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.
  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
  • If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.
  • But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
+1

Quotes 1 till 20 of 21.

1 2 Next 
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +7
  • A. J. P. Taylor 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
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
    - +
    +1
  • Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Arnold Toynbee America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Cosby Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Augusten Burroughs But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Caro But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
    Anthony Caro
    English sculptor (1924 - 2013)
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Cosby If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Marshall Mcluhan If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Flores If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Baruj Benacerraf In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
    - +
     0
  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.
    All's well that ends well
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Hybels More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alberto Giacometti Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
    - +
     0
  • Arne Jacobsen People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Jonson Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
    Now the sun is laid to sleep,
    Seated in thy silver chair,
    State in wonted manner keep:
    Hesperus entreats thy light,
    Goddess, excellently bright.
    Cynthias Revels
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
    - +
     0
  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All chair famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com