#airs

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row. ↗

— Lewis Black

#course #days #downstairs #five #get

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#books #everywhere #i #only #piles

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#idea #neglect #no idea #only #quite

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#chart #destiny #determination #good #greatest

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#during #give #had #haven #hour

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#clearly #human #human affairs #known #nothing

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#home #i #sir #stairs #up

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#achieve #attempt #basement #check #go