Bars Quotes - Page 33

• Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

  E. B. White

  Scotch, Alcohol, Months

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Causes, Censorship

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Opportunity, Prison

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, May, Causes

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• The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doors, Way

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The bars on our cage are of our own making.

  Jessie Burton

  Cages

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• I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Mean, Kids, Boys

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• When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

  Aristotle

  Pleasure, Jury

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bricks

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Earth, Eating

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Girl, Fall, Fighting

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• Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

  Steve Kazee

  Gay, Men, People

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• When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

  Jenn Suhr

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, Moving, Leader

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Wickedness

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• My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

  Channing Tatum

  Mean, Successful, Able

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Heart, Chill

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

  Nelson DeMille

  Beach, Home, Gold

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• In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

  Molly Ivins

  Cities, Paper, Rooms

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.235, Vintage

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Fighting, Texas, Knives

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Mom, Angel, Sides

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

  Jonathan Raban

  Presidential, Prose

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan

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