Armchair Quotes

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Good, Art, Mind

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber

Future, Past, Old

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
Hugh Jackman

Good, Cool, Friend

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Stephen Fry

Home, Writing, Down

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman

Truth, Why, Vision

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
Arthur Smith

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Anne Tyler

Put, Dream, While

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Tim Ferriss

Real, Themselves, Sit

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
Edward Carpenter

Life, Down, Why

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
Leslie Jamison

Long, Writing, Around

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.
Dennis Nilsen

Peace, Strength, Feeling

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