Bartender Quotes - Page 3

• Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Honor, Potters

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• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  Nick Frost

  School, Thinking, Acting

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2005.

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• This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

  Joel Spolsky

  Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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• A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

  Foster Friess

  Bars, Conservative, Walks

  "Life of the Party" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

  Joelle Carter

  Long, People, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says:
  - What is this, a joke?
  - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.

  C. S. Lewis

  Organization, Catholic, Bars

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• The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.

  Ian MacKaye

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Children, Real

  M. Scott Peck (2005). “Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Grandmother, Thinking

  "The Eat, Pray, Love author and GQ alum talks about a new cookbook". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Horse, Pain, Voice

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• Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

  Aristophanes

  Women, Chance, Drink

  Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson (1998). “Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria”, p.547, Harvard University Press

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• .. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Wonderful

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• Lend's dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire walk into a bar. "What'll you have?" the bartender asks. "We were thinking him," the vampire answers, eyeing the doctor. Okay, jokes weren't my strong point.

  Kiersten White

  Strong, Dad, Thinking

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• There's been times when I have actually had sex indoors. And then you kind of sober up a little when it's over. I become like a bartender at 2 AM. OK, people, let's move it out! Yeah, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sex, Moving, Home

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• I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a writer but I didn't want to tell anyone about it. Then I graduated and became a bartender in Philadelphia, writing during the day. I was the worst bartender in the world.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Heart, College

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• I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Years, Faithful

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• I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

  John Lee Hooker

  Night, Bars, Detroit

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• I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

  Andre Dubus

  Stars, Crazy, Distance

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• From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

  Brian Dennehy

  Jobs, Thinking, Doe

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that you'll see how you affect them , and you'll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals.

  Pat Martino

  Simple, Reality, Play

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