“In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair” MenWatchesRichBalanceDiedLawyerChairsStringsFinestRich ManFeesCourtroom Author:Phil Ochs
“Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.” NeedsWritingKindBookAdventureBalanceInternalsChairsHawaiiFloatsSofasMartiniShakersRafting Author:Tom Robbins
“I think the chair`s job is to be fair and I think the job of all of the vice chairs is to make sure that happens. And we have really robust conversations about what balance is, and it`s not easy.” ThinkingHappensJobsEasyBalanceConversationFairsVicesChairsRobust Author:Hillary Clinton
“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?” PeopleKnowsKindMeanDoeIdeasMovingCertainValuesPerfectNumbersStudyFiguresHumilityBalancePeriodsJudgmentOkayBotherChairsOptimumPerfect BalanceStravinsky Author:Charles Koch
“For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.” IfsWritingWellsPlayLightMightFormSpaceBalanceEssentialsConcernChairsTimingEssaysTheoreticalPlaywriting Author:Sam Shepard
“But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.” EndsLandStupidTearsArmsBalanceSittingMetaphorCoffeeCupsChairsSpellsTypicalSpillsCoffee CupStupid Things Book:Him Her Him Again The End of Him Source: Him Her Him Again The End of Him