Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois."
Chairs quotes
Chairs
118 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"I’m on top of my green like a lawn chair"
Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward."
Saul Williams
Poet, Actor, Musician
"Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair."
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"Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story."
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"If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair."
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"Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic"."
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"I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair."
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"Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you."
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"The discontented man finds no easy chair."
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"Every chair should be a throne and hold a king."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair."
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"Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing."
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"Started from the chair hop now we here."
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen."
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"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
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"The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision."
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"There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair."
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"Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear."
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"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair"
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"No one chair should be isolated."
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"I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes."
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