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Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
Le Corbusier
Seating is structural, couches are aristocratic.
2.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover
3.
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
Eero Saarinen
4.
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
Ellen Tauscher
6.
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
Ray Toro
7.
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
Ettore Sottsass
8.
Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought
Sydney Banks
10.
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
Colonel Sanders
11.
I’m on top of my green like a lawn chair
Lil Wayne
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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.
Martha Graham
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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
Don Rickles
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A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself
Finn Juhl
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If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
Robert De Niro
16.
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.
Hippolytus of Rome
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A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.
Hans Wegner
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The good chair is a task one is never completely done with
Hans Wegner
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Saul Williams
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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
22.
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
Erma Bombeck
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There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
Arne Jacobsen
25.
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
Donald Judd
26.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
Stephen Covey
27.
I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.
Thomas McGuane
28.
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
Alan Cooper
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Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.
Mario Bellini
30.
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.
Jimi Hendrix
31.
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond
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It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.
Walter Winchell
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
Graham Greene
35.
Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.
David Bowie
36.
The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
Emilio Ambasz
38.
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
39.
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
Morton Feldman
42.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan
43.
I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.
Neil Diamond
44.
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.
Edna O'Brien
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
46.
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
Martin Ryle
47.
Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere
Ashwin Sanghi
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The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
Keith Ellison