Armchair Quotes
Sayings on sitting back — and stepping out.
These armchair quotes contrast comfortable detachment with real engagement, from armchair skeptics who never test their theories to art that offers a soothing, Chair-like calm. It's a theme that spans criticism, memory, and creative purpose.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair...
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Always Quotes
The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8...
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
Art Quotes
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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.
