#chair

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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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. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#been #chair #cold #compromise #do the right thing

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#board #chairman #daughter #great #great music

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#chair #electric #end #high #high school

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. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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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. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

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

#art #balance #calming #depressing #devoid

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#chairman #governors #i #republican

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ↗

— Clifford Irving

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