Saloons Quotes - Page 2

• I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

  Ben Hecht

  Sleep, Cities, Jail

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• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Horse, Fun, Book

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

  John Muir

  Fall, Rocks, Climbing

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.2009, e-artnow

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• I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Law, Return, Modern

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

  Bob Higgins

  Religious, Long, Common Sense

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• The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Soldier, Hot

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• I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Long, Lines, Sides

  "Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear". TIME Interview, content.time.com. May 12, 2011.

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Drinking, Clothes, Alcohol

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Long, Important

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• Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

  Jack Nicholson

  Media, America, People

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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• I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Office, Guy

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• There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Horse, Fun, Passion

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• Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Talking, Drawing

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• The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Sky, Earth

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.531, Harvard University Press

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• If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.

  Adam Haslett

  Bars, Shooting, Indecision

  "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.

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• My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

  Thomas Hood

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Thomas Hood (1860). “Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches”, p.154

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

  W. C. Fields

  Old Hollywood, Ifs

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• It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!

  Jerusha Hess

  Girl, Tights, Stories

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• Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

  Don Rickles

  People, Made, Stage

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Sex, Oregon, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

  Malachy McCourt

  Writing, Hands, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Brother, Hate, League

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• I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

  Malachy McCourt

  Father, Drinking, Leaving

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

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