McCain is completely against the sequester. It was one thing when we had a Democratic chair who was against it – all the Democrats were against it. But to have a Republican chair who is outspoken and strong against the sequester, who has the credentials in military issues – who is going to challenge him?
If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I’m delighted.
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.
As chair of the Treasury Select Committee I hear time and time again just how important E.U. citizens are to the financial services sector. It is also apparent just how critical they are for our NHS too.
We’ve got to protect the nursery schools. I’m chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I’d be worried about the socialising skills of children.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I’d rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That’s all there is to it.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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.
As a composer and as a musician I’m a true believer – and this is not to be overly diplomatic – I’m a believer that there’s artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There’s art in absolutely everything.
I chair cabinet, we have robust debates during cabinet meetings and we actually come to decisions as a consensus. It’s very much people are very passionate about different views and everything, but that’s what a cabinet should be like.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
Humanity’s become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
I sit down in a chair, and I take off my two heavy little prosthetic legs and I crawl on my knees to the edge of the pool and I just jumped in, and I just instantly loved it.
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
I wrote ‘The Hunger Games’ in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.
I’m capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full time job. So I think that it’s a combination of being lucky, but also really studying, working hard and pushing myself to do everything I could.
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.
I’ve got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I’m always going to the cemetery.
By 2012, my game was shot. You’re sitting on your chair watching players’ leagues below you play shots you can’t. That destroyed me.
When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.
There are times when I cry. I’ll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, ‘Well, that was dramatic.’
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything – a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
If I’m really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.
We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
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.
A good man should be on the PM’s chair. The country’s condition should improve. Only because of this I have supported Modi. You may call it a masterstroke or anything else.
I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there’s nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there’s a chair, and it’s empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.
The main thing about writing is… writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
In tech, people want an object for what’s inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won’t walk away from. A chair is aggressive – you want a customer to choose it from many others.
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
Praying is like a rocking chair – it’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.
There’s a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, ‘I remember when ‘all right’ was two words.’
My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
At our house, my father loved the arts. Among his favorite things was ‘The Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures’ – a box set of small books on different art periods. I’d go into the living room at night and sit on the arm of his chair as he studied the images.
I’ve been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.
In PA, the Lieutenant Governor serves as the Chair of the Board of Pardons. That means that I sit as the head of our five-person board, where we hear testimony and process applications for pardons and sentence commutation.
In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.
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.
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
Age does take it out of you, and I haven’t the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
If Romney were a chair, he’d be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We’ve spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.
