Quotes of: Armchair Keyword

A good armchair makes the backside soft and the heart hard.

French

The lazy one stands up between one armchair and another.

Japanese

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Anne Tyler

That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.

Also Known as Armchair Detective

I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that’s no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by ...

Paul Murray

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

Rick Moranis

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Stephen Fry

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a crystal I was dissolving in her, in I-330. I felt most distinctly ho...

We

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

John Jay Chapman

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

Arthur Smith

Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

Jenna Morasca

When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful. It is quite profitable then to regard the gods and goddesses and demons as projections of...

Leviathan

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Dennis Nilsen

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.

Stella Young

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

Alan Ball

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Nick Cave

[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Roald Dahl

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Seamus Heaney