Bars Quotes

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Drinking

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• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Thinking, Understood

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• I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Writing, Thinking

  Wall Street Journal, December 31, 1985.

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• Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

  Bill Geist

  Sweet, Two, Feelings

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• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  Bruce Jenner

  Raising The Bar

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mean Girls, Wisdom, Voice

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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• I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Jail, Bail

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• Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Dark, Would Be

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• Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

  Robert Quine

  New York, August, People

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• The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  School, Men, Office

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• I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Cards, Rewards, Coexist

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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 Dunbar

  Long, Never Quit, Quitting

  Interview with Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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• Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Sex, Mean

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• In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Levels, Should

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

  Arthur Koestler

  Writing, Cows, Milk

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• Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Night, People

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• A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, Apples, Pie

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• If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Night, Museums, Clubs

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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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

  Stuff, Too Much, Circle Of Friends

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• I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

  Bill Murray

  Guy, Want, Drink

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• Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Drinking, Hospitality

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• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  Beck

  Positive, Happiness, Stars

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