Bar Quotes

#1. I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

O. Henry

#2. Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt.

Peter Kirsanow

#3. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.

Jill Scott

#5. I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#7. I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.

The Rev

#8. The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

Steve Inskeep

#9. The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen.

Doug Stanhope

#10. Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

Lord Byron

#11. I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

Ernest Cline

#12. What's it like? Ballet school?"
"Harsh," he said. "Everyone dances until they collapse. We eat only raw-egg smoothies and wheat protein. Every Friday we have a dance-off and whoever is left standing gets a chocolate bar. Also we have to watch dance movies constantly.

Cassandra Clare

#13. I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

Jacqueline Nguyen

#14. I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

David Chang

#15. My biggest tip is this ... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me.

James Corden

#16. It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.

Shannon Stacey

#17. The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

Ted Rall

#18. When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

Ellie Goulding

#19. Holy fuck. What a buncha stupid white boys. Why don't they just invite the whole fucking police force into the bar? Avery this has gotta stop. Like now

H.M. Ward

#20. He had only ever seen one episode of it - the one where Coach's daughter comes to the bar - although he had seen that several times. Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart; he thought it must be some kind of cosmic

Neil Gaiman

#21. Did you get checked out?" "Yeah, by a hot blond who sat in the corner of the bar and made googly eyes at me." "I meant by a doctor." "No, but a balding yet bizarrely hot paramedic said I'd be fine." "Oh, and he's an expert?" "At flirting.

Darynda Jones

#22. I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.

Evan Longoria

#23. In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth.

Amie Kaufman

#24. Man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Anne Sexton

#25. Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with "The Moment" - that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please - let it be him.

Julie James

#26. It is much the best way ... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

William Billings

#27. A week later he was in Tokyo, his face reflected in an elevator's gold-veined mirror for this three-floor ascent of the aggressively nondescript O My Golly Building. To be admitted to Death Cube K, apparently a Franz Kafka theme bar.

William Gibson

#28. It was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met my Uncle's glare as if she were his equal.

Philippa Gregory

#29. I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

Rory Bremner

#30. There was a tendency by some to romanticize love, to make a fetish out of it. The poets made love seem like a bar of iron coming out of the furnace at the blacksmith's, red hot and staying so forever. Soto did not think much of such notions.

Ken Liu

#31. Want me to give him a little advice before he gets his nose broken?" "No," Jack said flatly. Jack was thinking that breaking his nose was going to feel very good. If Nick put one hand on her, he was going to come apart. "Good," Preacher said. "I haven't been to a good bar fight in years." In

Robyn Carr

#32. Carnegie: And who are you?
Eli: Nobody.
Carnegie: Oh, I doubt that. The men you killed in my bar, now they were nobody.

Book Of Eli Movie

#33. I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.

Charles Bukowski

#34. In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

Jane Smiley

#35. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Marian Keyes

#36. Sheh walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. Another bit of bread and cheese, he said to the lad behind the bar.

P.G. Wodehouse

#37. I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#38. I had to pass a few more tests, and that house is shored up tighter than a straight boy's ass at a gay bar.

Keri Arthur

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#40. I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'

Dave Brat

#41. Hooking up with a tall, dark stranger in a bar wasn't anywhere on her to do-do list, but as she eyed those broad shoulders, the thick neck, strong-looking hands, and gorgeous mouth ...
What the hell, maybe he should be on the top of her "to-do" list.

Ophelia London

#42. Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

Irvine Welsh

#43. I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Count Basie

#44. Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion,

Stephen King

#45. I'm going to get something from the salad bar. Do you want a Frosty from Wendy's, Alex?

Bryan Norford

#46. You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You're playing with fire, every damn time you walk in this bar.

Karen Rose

#47. He looks at you like you're the last chocolate bar on the shelf and he would die without a chocolate fix.

Nora Roberts

#48. I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

Alan Zweibel

#49. I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

Cal Ripken Jr.

#50. I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

Don Cheadle

#51. My mom would never ride an ATV,' he said. 'But you did.'

'Is that a good thing?' I asked.

He traced my lips with his fingertip. 'Yes.'

My body melted like a candy bar on the dashboard.

Sandra Byrd

#52. The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

Robert Asprin

#53. that Elijah Martin--alias Skeesicks--lounging shyly into the bar-room, joined in it weakly.

Various

#54. If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

L. Tom Perry

#55. I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

Hayden Schlossberg

#56. Whether I'm flying two hours or across the country, I always make sure to have a packet of almonds with me, an apple, and a Luna bar. I carry those around on a daily basis in case I'm stuck somewhere or hungry.

Heather Mitts

#57. In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

Billy Joel

#58. Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Cheryl Strayed

#59. There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

Robert Breault

#60. I own motorized bar stools.

Jimmie Johnson

#61. You are the best thing to happen to me, bar none. You, Abbey...all of this. You both walked into my life and...I never knew what I wanted until you did.

Jessica Topper

#62. These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Grant Morrison

#63. Leathery bar girls worked the charter booths at the harbor, smoking Basic 100s and talking in voices that sounded like 151 rum poured into hot grease - a jigger of friendly to the liter of harsh.

Christopher Moore

#64. There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone.

Seth Rogen

#65. Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried yet.

Scarlett Thomas

#66. We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

Owen Jones

#67. In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

Zach Braff

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

Bill Murray

#69. That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Lew Wasserman

#70. A bar of gold means much more to a pauper than to a king

Brandon Mull

#71. I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

Twyla Tharp

#72. He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#73. Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.

John Waters

#74. The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

Greg Gutfeld

#75. Death is like an old whore in a bar
I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her

Ernest Hemingway,

#76. I'm in this for the long haul, Doc. I was before you walked into my bar tonight, but now, after the best fucking sex of my life, after how wild that was, there's no way I'm letting you walk out of here without me.

Samantha Young

#77. Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

Laura Oliva

#78. A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#79. Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Woody Allen

#80. The man at the end of the bar was looking at me. ... Should I get drunk and sleep with him now? But I could see that I would regret that so much I would want to die after. I didn't want to get involved with anyone, and I didn't want to bear being alone with the warmth left by someone long gone.

Fuminori Nakamura

#81. While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.

Guy Branum

#82. I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

Hugh Jackman

#83. The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Alexis Korner

#84. I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

Russ Rose

#85. She bought a chocolate bar and it tasted surprisingly good - as if, without her knowing it, sitting here and eating this chocolate was the one thing she had wanted to do all day.

Richard Yates

#86. I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#87. Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof! he vanishes.

Various

#88. The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#89. When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Aristotle.

#90. Engel & Volkers is unlike any other real estate company I have known and I am proud to be part of an organization that raises the bar to such high levels.

Anthony Hitt

#91. That Castrima has lasted this far, a comm of stills who have repeatedly failed to lynch the roggas openly living among them, is miraculous. Even if "hasn't yet committed genocidal slaughter" is a low bar to hop, other communities haven't even managed that much. You'll give credit where it's due. It

N.K. Jemisin

#92. Be myself. If only I remembered what it was like to be myself. I'm a fucking waitress in a crappy bar in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was going nowhere. I had nothing to give him beside myself and my heart and he denied me.

Stephanie Witter

#93. 21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Michael Eisner

#94. A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

Catherine Hardwicke

#95. Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#96. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Mal Peet

#97. We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God ...

Phil Collins

#98. Phin spared a moment of sympathy for Frank until he looked back and saw him at the bar, leaning into Clea's cleavage. Get a grip, Frank, he thought, and then he looked down Sophie's dress and thought, Never mind, Frank.

Jennifer Crusie

#99. But I love to drink. I can't help it. I mean, I love it Bryson-love the taste, love that buzz you get when you've had a couple, love the smell and feel of the taverns. I miss dirty jokes and the click of pool balls in the background, and that kind of bluish, under lit glow of a bar at night.

Bill Bryson

#100. In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

Madhur Bhandarkar