Bars Quotes - Page 37

• I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

  Chris Isaak

  Stars, Children, Party

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• Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

  Anne Fadiman

  Sleep, Writing, Cities

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

  Susan Strasberg

  Yoga, Chocolate, Lots Of Friends

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

  Peter Burke

  Beautiful, Girl, Running

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• I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.

  Tim Cordes

  Hurt, Fall, Swings

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• You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

  Seth Godin

  Waiting, Mediocrity, Status Quo

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Fighting, Race

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• We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again.

  Don Panoz

  Athlete, School, Winning

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• Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Despair, Unseen

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.24

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• Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

  David Cortright

  Moral, Strategy, Hypocritical

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• If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Strong, America

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

  Sam Ewing

  Doors, Cities, House

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• In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.

  Margaret Maron

  Dream, Hero, World

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Poison

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

  Jennifer Echols

  Stupid, Would Be, Half

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Forget You”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.

  Butch Vig

  Artist, Track, Evil

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• I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive.

  Christopher Titus

  Guy, Bucks

  "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding". Comedy, Documentary, 2004.

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• Please allow me to offer a simple financial plan. Invest in chocolate. Buy bars. Lots of bars. If we do enter anything approximating a real financial depression, you will not be able to improve your mood with gold.

  Anita Renfroe

  Real, Simple, Chocolate

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• In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.

  Nicu Vlad

  Winter, America, Needs

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• The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

  Billy Connolly

  Desire, Politician, Should

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