#chair

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#between #chairman #coexistence #enter #entities

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#board #chairman #data #dollars #hundred

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#chairman #collect #committee #community #formal

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#empty #huey #lies #making #ourselves

The discontented man finds no easy chair. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#discontented #easy #finds #man

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

#bar #cigar #cool #danny #friend

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#care #chair #designed #people #really

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#astronomy #chair #me #new #our