When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

- George Carlin

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

- Jennifer Granholm

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

- Jill Scott

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

- John Wooden

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

- Ian Mckellen

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

- Harold Ford, Jr.

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

- Harry Houdini

Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.

- Hanya Yanagihara

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

- Greg Kinnear

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

- Gary Weiss

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

- Brian Celio

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

- Georg Simmel

You have to believe in something strongly enough that you would lose your seat over it.

- Elizabeth Esty

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

- Evel Knievel

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

- Elizabeth I

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.

- Dan Gelber

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

- Denis Napthine

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

- Dan Rather

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

- Christopher Lee

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

- Bert Kalmar