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“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.”

May Reality Science Common Direct Common Sense Contact Collections Chairs Attributes Mathematician Physicist Electrons

Author:G. H. Hardy

“My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.”

Source: Venus in Furs

“I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.”

Writing Trying Firsts Believe May Made I Can Use Courses I Believe Virtue Fine Paper Pages Machines Shining Awful Faster Perceive Acquire Chairs Working It Print Ink Facility Typewriters

Author:Mark Twain

“I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?”

Trying Soul Dream Hands Study Arms Sorrow Paint Various Sat Chairs Cracks Layers Chips Shattered Paperwork Many Hands

Book:A Place to Stand

Source: A Place to Stand

“I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.”

Mean Home Lines Animal Dog Bed Draws Tables Etc Chairs My Dog Couches Blanket Animal Love Freckles Linen Bedding Nibbling Chipmunks

Author:Kate Smith

“Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.”

Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

“My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?”

“Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.”

Littles Doe Ideas Universe Individual Currents Manifestation Chairs

Author:Fredric Jameson

“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.”

Church Catholic Chairs Peter Catholic Church

Author:Hippolytus of Rome

“The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.”

Believe Made Facts Might Grace Capable Angel Dues Chairs Peculiar Shakers

Author:Thomas Merton

“I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]”

Body Roles Needed Trials Chairs Monkeys Scope Explaining Scopes Trial

Author:John T. Scopes

“For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.”

Ifs Years Said Comfortable If I Could Chairs Rivals

Book:Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman

Source: Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman

“Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?”

“There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.”

“My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.”

Two Body Lying Natural Position Office Ideals Two Things Chairs

Author:Niels Diffrient

“One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!”

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.”

Littles Reality Sitting Bottom Legs Sat Chairs Little Things

Author:William Hughes Mearns

“Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.”

Knows Persons Body Moving Can Do Relation Infinite Chairs Binary Vicissitudes

Book:The Two Kinds of Decay

Source: The Two Kinds of Decay

“15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.”

Insane Chairs Wwe Steel

Author:John Cena

“My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.”

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Author:CM Punk

“The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.”

Kind Politics Term Community Special Example Comfort Concerned Safety Lawyer Worried Chairs Capture Officers Tape Beard Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Bane Gags Intelligence Community

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Who is sitting in that empty chair?”

Funny Sitting Empty Chairs Orchestra

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.”

Way Feels Forget Listening Sitting Stones Chairs Rolling Rolling Stones Rocking Chairs Younger Days

Author:Patty Duke

“I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.”

Knows Should Writing Firsts Sometimes Rooms Doubt One Thing Chairs Dictionary Refining

Author:E. B. White

“There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.”

Age Found Rooms Fire Saws Growing Youth Arms Mets Perfection Balls Lips Old Age Knees Holiness Chairs Grandchildren Seventies Seventeen Promenade

Book:Dreamthorp

Source: Dreamthorp

“Being in the beauty industry has taught me that most of us are never satisfied with how we look. We all wish we had better hair, could lose that last 10 pounds, or look like someone else. I always see the beauty in the clients that have sat in my chair, and I've tried to help them see it, too, and feel good about themselves.”

Inspirational Feels Looks Helping Lasts Wish Loses Taught Hair Industry Satisfied Feel Good Sat Chairs Pounds Clients Beauty Industry

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.”

Ifs Walks Naked Chairs Nudity

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.”

Ifs Able Ready Arms Get Up Settling Chairs Restlessness

Author:Andre Gide

“Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country”

Ifs Thinking Men World Should Littles Made Stills Country States Happens Understanding Military Sitting Raised Damage Tension Chairs Be A Man Military Service

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Ifs Needs Wells Loneliness Solitude Empty Tables Satisfied Chairs

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“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.”

Success Class Chairs Couches Success And Failure

Author:Lillian Hellman

“In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.”

Feels Like You Desert Chairs Camps Ads Leather Lauren

Author:Mark Burnett

“I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!”

Believe Father House Politics Lord Principles Imagine Sitting Don't Believe Wide Chairs Dentist Hereditary House Of Lords

Author:Tony Benn

“I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.”

States Science Father Prison Experts Chairs Electricity

Author:W. C. Fields

“I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.”

Want Feels Age White Wise Hair Library Chairs Tall Being Wise Fireplaces White Hair

Author:Gregory Corso

“The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.”

Humans Light Views Mass Productions Surface Point Of View Rational Chairs Steel Constructive Suitable Mass Production Chromium

Book:Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Source: Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.”

Beautiful Law Mother Let Me Christmas Chairs In-laws Plugs Mother In Law

Author:Milton Berle

“I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend?”

Stills Feelings Sadness Broken Disappear Chairs Liars Crowns Sweetest Thorns Stains Crown Of Thorns

Author:Trent Reznor

“I worked on USA Today as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.”

Looks Hands Today Universal Usa Chairs Topics

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.”

Want Sometimes Audience Chairs Bombarded Bombarded By

Author:Sam Mendes

“I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.”

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Author:Max Greenfield

“I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.”

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Author:Minka Kelly

“Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.”

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Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.”

People Remember Film Millions Sitting Chairs Cheeks Pimples

Author:Jonathan Brandis

“I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.”

Honestly Thrown Chairs

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.”

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Author:Laura Carmichael

“A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?”

Trying Names Watches Car Picks Chairs Polite Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Charles Dance

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

Clothes Chairs Props Memento

Author:Adam Garcia

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