Pubs Quotes - Page 4

• I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

  Eddie Marsan

  Glasses, People, Age

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.

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• A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.

  Danny Fox

  Horse, Writing, Lunch

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Watches, Television

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

  Charles Todd

  Retirement, Believe, Book

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.

  Roy Kesey

  Reading, Past, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

  Nathan Lowell

  Littles, Narrative, Enjoy

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Powerful, Thinking

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

  Derek Taylor

  Docks, Tough, Danger

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Dublin, Lasts

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• Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.

  Simon Pegg

  Nice, Car, Dramatic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Drinking, People, London

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

  Sara Cox

  Heart, Years, Sweat

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.

  Pauline Quirke

  Add, Pints

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

  Barbara Holland

  Red, Argument, Foreign Policy

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

  Harvey Milk

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I used to go into pubs and people would want to pick a fight with me. I would hear a group of girls say: 'Oh look, there's Pat Cash.' And then one of them would come up to me and say, 'You think you're so good,' and throw a drink in my face. That kind of reaction from people was a bit of a shock initially, and you don't ever really get used to it.

  Pat Cash

  Girl, Fighting, Thinking

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• The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?

  Emma Bunton

  Hate, Guy, Lines

  "Q&A: The Spice Girls". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rollingstone.com. March 6, 1997.

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• When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Air, Voice, Dry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Doctors, Office

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• Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feminist

  "Caitlin Moran: 'Let's all go and be feminists in the pub'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

  Frank Carson

  Two, Passing, Wells

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• I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.

  Phil Collins

  Believe, Home, Cnn

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Band, Situation

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