Bars Quotes

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Thinking, Understood

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

  Jo Stafford

  Unique, Eight, Hearing

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• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Drinking, Missing, Holy Places

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

  Don Rickles

  Trying, Empires, Soap

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• To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Gay, Hanging Out

  "Word for Word: The Rodman-Jackson Papers;Sex and Death and the N.B.A., From Books by Bulls". Interview with Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 1996.

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• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

  Judith Viorst

  Inspirational, Strength, Food

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• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Tools, Architecture

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• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  Beau Bridges

  Travel, Entertainment, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

  Kenny Marchant

  Competition, Excellence, Important

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• Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

  Keri Russell

  Thinking, Acting, Looking For Love

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• In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

  Gerald McRaney

  Marijuana, People, Smoking

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• We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

  Stephen Breyer

  Hands, Groups, Speak

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• When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Fear, Journey

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Memories, Children

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• There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  School, Men, Rooms

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• Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Stars, Sunset

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Summer, Jobs, Home

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• We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Drunk, Shooting Up

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

  Joni Mitchell

  Handle

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• The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

  Wilson Mizner

  Wisdom, Differences, Kind

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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

  Huey Newton

  Wall, Gun, Ideas

  Huey P Newton (2011). “The Huey P. Newton Reader”, p.155, Seven Stories Press

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• I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Lucky

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