I have learnt from bitter experience that when the armchair theorists and the Whitehall generals start talking of a surgical war, it is time to run for cover.

-Ashdown, Baron
  Referring to plans for the Gulf  War. In the Sunday Times, 27  Jan.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity†a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

-Matisse, Henri EŁ  mile Beno|"  t
  'Notes d'un peintre', in La Grande Revue.

‚Ah s |¤ , ponerse a escribir otra vez, que¤   vomitivo! ‚Como si todo esto sirviera para algo, como si todo esto fuera a entrar en alguna cabezota, a entretener a alguno de los lectores babosos, ovillados en sus poltronas, frente al sopo¤ n  sopor|¤fero de cada d|¤a! Ah yes, going back to writing, how disgusting! As if all this had some purpose, as if all this would penetrate somethick skull, amusesome drivelling readercurledup in his armchair before the soporific stew of every day!

-Sappho   7c
  De donde son los cantantes (translated as From Cuba with a Song,1972),'La Dolores Rondo¤   n'.