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Quotes About Seating

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
~ Donald T. Regan
Moving students around on a seating chart is like playing a game of Sudoku. No mater how you set up the chart, you still end up with children who should be separated.
~ Phillip Done
She said I could have a seat on the couch if I wanted to, but I told her I didn't believe in leather, so I stood.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
~ George Carlin
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.
~ Nick Harkaway
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
~ Jeff Kinney
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
~ John Mayer
Does a toilet seat get ass?
~ Douglas Preston
Now light sits in the chairs
~ Rae Armantrout
The plane had seating for twelve, legroom for five, and all the turbulence of Darcy's family life.
~ Ray Blackston
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
~ Robert Benchley
Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.
~ Kin Hubbard
I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?
~ Nina Simone
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.
~ George Orwell
At the time of the American Revolution, the terms 'left' and 'right' themselves did not yet exist. A product of the decade immediately following, they originally referred to the respective seating positions of aristocratic and popular factions in the French National Assembly of 1789.
~ David Graeber
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
~ Taylor Schilling
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn and look over their right shoulders to see home plate.
~ Steve Rushin
Most cars are comfortable until you are about 6'3' or 4.
~ Chris Harris
To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
~ Wanda Sykes
Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.
~ Sharon Horgan
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'
~ Jennifer Grey
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
~ Robert Grosseteste