Quotes About Bars

#1. Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.

Thomas Harris

#2. I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

Brian McKnight

#3. I've got to be high class ... Which is sad, because I like bars.

Daniel Craig

#4. I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I'd also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people, and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict.

Michael Franti

#5. I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs..

Aziz Ansari

#6. I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William H Gass

#7. The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.

David Hewson

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

Jennifer Echols

#9. The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Huey Newton

#10. My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

Christopher Rice

#11. When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

Jenny Lawson

#12. I can't even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars.
"Sorry" he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.

Meg Cabot

#13. Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. O my Carmen, my Carmen!
Something, something those something nights
And the stars, and the cars, and the bars and the barmen ~

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.

Magnus Flyte

#16. When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

Johnny Knoxville

#17. Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.

Nenia Campbell

#18. Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

Howard Hughes

#19. His mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot

Raymond E. Feist

#20. Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

Molly Ivins

#21. We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.

Bonnie Tyler

#22. One of the things I want to find out is where the hell are the WWE ice cream bars?!

CM Punk

#23. At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and sorrier ass) back on the street, but they can't card you when you sit down to paint a picture, write a poem, or tell a story.

Stephen King

#24. Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

Scott Cook

#25. Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

Bob Riley

#26. Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

John Dewey

#27. Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

Leah Busque

#28. Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

J.R. Moehringer

#29. When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

Nelson Mandela

#30. You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

Jo Stafford

#31. Biathletes need to eat 6.000 calories a day: six thousand! That's the equivalent of 2 pounds of butter, 70 slices of bread, 112 eggs, 86 tabs of yogurts, 28 potatoes, 117 biscuits and 21 TWIX bars. On that basis, I could be an Olympic biathlete!

Jeremy Clarkson

#32. Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

Leonid Andreyev

#33. Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

Nadia Comaneci

#34. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#35. Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#36. I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it.

Tony Harrison

#37. I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End's coffee bars and clubs. It's kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.

Cat Stevens

#38. 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

#39. I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

Linda Blair

#40. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#41. The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

Darius Milhaud

#42. A feeling rose in me, and I just let it, because what harm could it do? It only had another thirty-two adagio bars of life in this world. Twenty-four. Sixteen. Eight more bars in which I love you. Three. Two. One.

Rachel Hartman

#43. There were Lolo McCaffrey's thick braids and patchouli-oil smell, crouched down by the nutritional bars, her moon face staring at the label of a Clif Bar like someone who can't read.

J. Ryan Stradal

#44. Those walls and bars are there for a reason," said Crake. "Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases." "Them?" "Nature and God." "I thought you didn't believe in God," said Jimmy. "I don't believe in Nature either," said Crake. "Or not with a capital N.

Margaret Atwood

#45. Because a cage is still a cage, no matter how big or glittering the bars are.

Betsy Schow

#46. If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

Nouriel Roubini

#47. I'd waited for this opportunity with Claudia for a long time - ever since elementary school when I tried to impress her on the monkey bars and woo her with my crayon drawings. But I couldn't have been with her any sooner. You can't expect someone to love a shadow.

Suzanne McKenna Link

#48. It wasn't that she wanted to be in college again, exactly. No, she just missed it sometimes, the aftermath of those nights out, inexplicable bruises and lost wallets, phone numbers being requested, make-outs with near strangers in crowded bars

Jennifer Close

#49. The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.

Richard Fliegel

#50. We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health ... We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

Michelle Obama

#51. In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Doris Roberts

#52. I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.

Martha Cooley

#53. Iron bars make a cage all right, and the more you look at them or reproduce them the more you know it's a real cage.

A.S. Byatt

#54. I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

Dave Gahan

#55. Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.

Donna R. Gabaccia

#56. Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.

Thomas Pierce

#57. If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

Nina Bawden

#58. The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris's ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.

Yoon Ha Lee

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

Young-Ha Kim

#60. Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

Ozzy Osbourne

#61. The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#62. I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

K.d. Lang

#63. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#64. 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

#65. The vending machine lacked the willpower of the Western elevator, and it dutifully spat out several chocolate bars and a packet of salt and vinegar chips. I gave you more money than that, thought William, and the vending machine gave him some more.

Kit Abbey

#66. Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck

Rachel Vincent

#67. Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.

Assata Shakur

#68. He bent down burying his face in my neck. I reached back to grab onto the iron bars behind me to hold myself up. My jacket slipped off my shoulders. I was pretty sure I was on fire and at that moment I would have sworn that bursting into flame was a glorious way to go.

Myra McEntire

#69. You get really angry when you're hungry. You get hangry. It's like you're not even the same person. Can we keep granola bars in your purse or something? It's just that I worry about my balls.

Colleen Hoover

#70. The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.

Ridley Pearson

#71. I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

Thomas Eakins

#72. It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Judy Woodruff

#73. What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.

Muhammad Ali

#74. Today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private ...

John Geddes

#75. It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Erin Morgenstern

#76. No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

David Berlinski

#77. No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper.

Antoine Leiris

#78. I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Tony Ross

#79. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#80. We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars

MF Grimm

#81. My old e-mail addresses are like bars I've been kicked out of and can never return to.

Jenny Lawson

#82. I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch

#83. We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

Phil Harris

#84. I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Michael Palin

#85. I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

Amanda Seyfried

#86. For when it starts feeling like a prison in there - and it usually does for most people - you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

John C. Lilly

#87. Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

Lysa TerKeurst

#88. I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

Yves Klein

#89. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Billy Graham

#90. A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#91. I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that's what granola bars are for.

Lilly Singh

#92. Hey," he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. "I always said you were jailbait, but this is ridiculous.

Rachel Caine

#93. The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy'
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Ben Bryant

#94. Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?
Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

Thomas Harris

#95. That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

Simone De Beauvoir

#96. After the church ceased to exist, an outfit calling itself the First Amendment Protection Society, Inc. - the largest operator of adult bookstores, topless bars, Internet porn sites, and karaoke cocktail lounges in the United States - intimidated

Dean Koontz

#97. A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

Merrill Markoe

#98. Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

Arthur Miller

#99. In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

Benjamin Clementine

#100. True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

Kerstin Gier