I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller
TomorrowChairSayMoreRetireSit
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
Walton Goggins
HistoryFlyChairOldBarnBring
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.
Alvar Aalto
LightViewChairPoint Of ViewSteel
I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
T. C. Boyle
FearBookChairDownGoNever
I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear as a professional thank-you or in a gift bag. Once ensconced in a facialist's chair, I let myself be coaxed into all sorts of treatments, because I'm there already, so why not?
Sloane Crosley
MyselfEyeGiftThinkBagChair
When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window.
Nathan Englander
WorkCoffeeDayWindowChairTable
I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.
Tom Graves
ThinkChairPossibleConservative
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Ingmar Bergman
LoveWindowChairLookLazyNothing
Donald Trump is a champion of women. He recognizes that we add to the conversation, and that certainly something as Republican Party chair I'm going to be reaching out to women all across this country.
Ronna McDaniel
WomenChampionChairConversation
I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
Federico Fellini
I AmPaintingSmokingTalkingChair
My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.
Mildred Dresselhaus
GreatEnergySurpriseChairUnited
It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.
Joshua Bell
PeopleThinkFeelChairSometimes
My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I've just decided I'll go with my flow and be very prepared.
Dianne Reeves
LifeCreativeMy LifeDoingChair
Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
Donna Brazile
MeProudFriendsChairYouDown
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
Clint Smith
DeathSupportDoubtChairEasy
I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
Bruce Forsyth
MyselfSleepChairBathPlansRock
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke's chair. The only wrong answer is, 'Who's Bernanke?'.
Austan Goolsbee
JobSomeoneChairWrongWantAsk
I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.
Peter Hook
SleepFeetChairYouScaredFloor
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.
Thundercat
TimeRememberChairFirst TimeHigh
If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.
Richard Shelby
ChairGoRightCommitteeThings
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
Marilyn Hacker
ReadingStoryChairEasyYouKnow
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
Mark McKinnon
GreatChallengesHandsChairMeet
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
Henry Rollins
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