#chair

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to shake hands with death. He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been. ("3 Kills For 1") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#death #death-penalty #death-sentence #electric-chair #execution

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. ↗

— Sam Walton

#boss #chairman #company #customer #down

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#finds #from time to time #gun #his #how

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't. ↗

— Lin Biao

#chairman #chairman mao #every #his #mao

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life! ↗

— Dick Clark

#i #life #me #shot #sitting

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#around #beach #breakfast #chair #daughter

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did. ↗

— David Crane

#buddies #chair #did #extra #fall

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#chairman #cheerleader #interests #organisation #public

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bed #cats #chairman #charlie #cows

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#approach #chair #computers #constant #favourite