Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
Charles D. Broad

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
William Vickrey

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
Muqtada al Sadr

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.
Mercedes McCambridge

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
Oprah Winfrey

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

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 the Christmas tree.
Frank Howard Clark

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.
Tim Vine

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
Jessica Savitch

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
Henry Villard

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
Anne Northup

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
Elizabeth Vargas

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Marc Newson

When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.
Jean Kerr

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.
Sam Mendes