Pubs Quotes - Page 3

• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

  David Soul

  Football, Team, Heart

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

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• Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

  Jez Butterworth

  Should Have, Sitting, Playwriting

  "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.

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• I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Gossip, Faces

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Country, Stars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

  Simon Hoggart

  Suicide, Atheist, War

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Potters

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Smoking, Brain

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• There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Fake, Bars

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

  Bill Bailey

  Males, Three, Walks

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• I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.

  Phil Daniels

  Golf, Play, People

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

  Bill Bryson

  Sorry, Mean, Shopping

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.232, VNR AG

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• I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Play, Ireland And The Irish

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• That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

  Andrew Flintoff

  Home, Mean, Sheep

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

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• Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Drinking, People, London

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

  James Joyce

  Would Be, Dublin, Crosses

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.55, e-artnow

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• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Mean

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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Distance, Space, Generosity

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• I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, People

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• Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.

  Bill Bailey

  Stupid, Commitment, Numbers

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Atmosphere

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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• People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

  Martina Cole

  Bus Stops, People, Giving

  Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK

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