(207 quotes found)
“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”
William S. Gilbert
“Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.”
David McFadden
“My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way.”
Jack Handy
“There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.”
Helen Hayes
“And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.”
William Allingham
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.”
Cameron Diaz
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.”
Mario Buatta
“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.”
T.S. Eliot
