Bars Quotes - Page 25

• We have a Daimon walk into the bar in broad daylight, and now a demon sliming Dev. I don´t know about you, but that doesn´t seem coincidental to me.” “I agree. Snot funny.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daylight, Demon, Broads

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Clouds, Bird, Vivid

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, America, Self

  "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.

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• To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!"

  Demetri Martin

  Shoes, People, Trying

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

  C. J. Cherryh

  Night, Ideas, Tennis

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• 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

  Sorry, Mean, Shirts

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• While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Mean, People

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

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Luck, Firsts

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.176, MIRA

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• Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

  Mira Grant

  Suicidal, Coke, Defying

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• It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Romance, Snickers, Equal

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.373, Macmillan

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• 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

  Hey, Faces, Ridiculous

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.108, Penguin

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• For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Mean

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 03, 2015

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• I carry the bars within me.

  Franz Kafka

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• Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say." And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Angel, Perfectly Good

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• I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, Boys, Doors

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.30, Penguin

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• It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.

  Elaine Dundy

  Crazy, Real, Mean

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• At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Stars, Dust

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.9, Hamilton Books

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• My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

  William Shakespeare

  Degrees, Tongue, Cry

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 194

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• But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache. - Jace Wayland

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Cells, Mustache

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• It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

  Stephan Pastis

  Distance, Love Your Family, Tigers

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• Since I’ve been on my own, I’ve been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That’s the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cereal, Snacks, Kitchen

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

  Douglas Adams

  Games, Black, Balls

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

  Charlaine Harris

  Pride, Interesting, Alcohol

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “True Blood Omnibus: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• Raven: "Don't you notice that?" Alexander: "Notice what?" Raven: "The girls?" Alexander: "What girls?" Raven: "Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar when all along I should have been concerned about bringing you." Alexander: "I don't know what you are talking about." Raven: "The girls are drooling all over you!" Alexander: "Well, there is only one girl I want to be with and she's right here.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Talking, Should Have

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• Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Hate, Years

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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