Top 30 Stool Quotes

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I’m not body-conscious, but show me a woman who genuinely wants to show the tops of her thighs squashed on a leather bar stool.

Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.

I love being in the kitchen with my daughter right next to me on her step stool. It’s sweet; we’re connecting.

I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I’d get up on the stool and sing. ‘T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.’ I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.

When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a ‘ready-made’ or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn’t have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.

It’s a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

The first time I used ‘Viva La Stool,’ I was just bragging about something. People grabbed it, and it went viral organically.

I pretty much grew up with my grandma. She would pull a stool over to the kitchen, and I would climb up at the kitchen counter, and I’d help her make biscuits.

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that’s not just a health issue, but I’ll be knocked off that king’s stool.

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin’s art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,’ and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, ‘Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.’

My grandmother would let me stand on a stool stirring gravy in a large roasting dish in front of a wood-fired stove at the age of six. She wasn’t worried about the whole health and safety stuff.

My grandmother Dora taught me how to cook. She’s from a small town in West Virginia called Milton. I would pull a stool up to her kitchen counter after school. My love of food started there.

In boxing, you get hit, it’s painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you’re down there, you’re playing in that way you’re supposed to. I like to be above it.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren’t paying attention to me, to now I’ve got their attention. It’s up to me to what I feed them with my music. It’s up to me how I do that. I’ve put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That’s the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you’ve got three other legs to stand on.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor – that’s what I wanted from the job – to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I’d love to be an old guy who can’t really walk, can’t really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

The next generation is going to have to understand that Social Security is just one leg of a stool. We need to actually bring back that savings incentive, and the only way you’re going to be able to do that is if you have a job.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit – probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery – but let me assure you, if you’re one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there’s a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you’re pretty and slim and glamorous there’s no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I’d crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.