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chair
«America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
chair, friendly, knocks, tail, wagging, wags
«Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.»
Author: Eliel Saarinen
(Architect)
| Keywords:
by design, chair, Chairing, city, Considering, context, design, designing, environment, Environments, house, In Context, larger, next, plan, room, rooming house, The Chair, The Chairs
«But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.»
«As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.»
Author: Henry Beston
| Keywords:
balances, chair, checks, Economy of, ethic, marvel, measurement, measurements, sit in
«Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair»
Author: Karen Moyer
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architects, chair, hand of God, right-handed, right hand, The Chair
«A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.»
Author: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Architect)
| Keywords:
chair, Chippendale, Chippendales, easy chair, skyscraper, skyscrapers
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
blankets, chair, fast asleep, lap, pillow, Rousseau, slightest, softly, sound asleep, The Shadows, The Wall, tire, well known
«Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| Keywords:
accusingly, bird of, bird of prey, chair, Edge of, exit, exits, Good Time, papers, perch, perched, perches, prey, suspecting, the edge, tiptoe, tiptoed, uncomfortable
«A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
bowl, bowled, chair, Chairing, fruit, table, The Chair, The Chairs, The Violin, violin, violins