Quotes and Sayings About Bars
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I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.
-- Aasif MandviSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.
-- Adam HaslettSource : "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.
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I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
-- Adam Sandler -
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
-- Al Goldstein -
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Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!
-- Al Michaels -
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
-- Alain de Botton -
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
-- Alexis Korner -
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I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
-- Alfred NoyesSource : "The Highwayman" l. 29 (1907)
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
-- Alison BechdelSource : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Not all prisons have bars
-- Amanda HockingSource : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.238, Pan Macmillan
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We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"
-- Amy Poehler -
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I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.
-- Anna Faris -
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
-- Archie SheppSource : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.
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I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.
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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
-- Aristotle -
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
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I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.
-- Ashley Greene -
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I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.
-- Ashley Jensen -
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
-- Axel Munthe -
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
-- Ayaan Hirsi AliSource : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
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Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
-- Aynsley DunbarSource : Interview with Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs..
-- Aziz Ansari -
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
-- Beau BridgesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
-- Ben Horowitz -
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
-- Benjamin CardozoSource : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.191, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.