Barstool Quotes

#1. The world became flat and everyone toppled off the edge as I fell off my barstool and into the shelter of his arms. When I tipped my head back to look at him, his pale blue eyes knocked on the door to my heart, then let themselves inside.

C.J. English

#2. Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool.

Tim Sultan

#3. I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Emo Philips

#4. Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?

Thomas Pynchon

#5. [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

#6. A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Henry Cloud

#7. It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

P. W. Botha

#9. There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

R. Alan Woods

#10. The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

Paul Newman

#11. Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Finley Peter Dunne

#12. You've read Gandhi-ji? He said that the two worst classes of human beings are doctors and lawyers. Lawyers because they prolong fights and doctors because they cure the symptoms, not the cause. Doctors don't eliminate disease--they perpetuate the existence of doctors.

Karan Mahajan

#13. It's not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it the smoothness of her skin,
the boldness when she stands or the
perseverance in her heart.
But the condition of her heart, the
gratitude she lives by and her love for God.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#14. Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

David Ogilvy

#15. Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#16. Survival required a certain degree of stubbornness.

Sarah M. Eden

#17. Concentrate on your strength and strongly build your strength whilst others concentrate on your weakness! When your strength is strong enough, you shall surely put them to shame with your strength, and they shall surely see their own weakness better!.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Marilyn French

#19. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

P.C. Cast