Pubs Quotes - Page 7

• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Knitting, Names, Piano

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• A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

  Harvey Milk

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I used to go into pubs and people would want to pick a fight with me. I would hear a group of girls say: 'Oh look, there's Pat Cash.' And then one of them would come up to me and say, 'You think you're so good,' and throw a drink in my face. That kind of reaction from people was a bit of a shock initially, and you don't ever really get used to it.

  Pat Cash

  Girl, Fighting, Thinking

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• The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Air, Voice, Dry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

  Derek Taylor

  Docks, Tough, Danger

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• I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Doctors, Office

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• I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

  Dov Davidoff

  Drinking, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 21, 2011

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• It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, America, Fire

  "Quint chats with the Hilarious Louis C.K.!". Interview with Eric Vespe, www.aintitcool.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  Eddie Marsan

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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

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• I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.

  Nick Frost

  Home, Kids, Play

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• I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

  Sara Cox

  Heart, Years, Sweat

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

  Shane MacGowan

  Stars, Mean, Play

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.

  Phil Collins

  Believe, Home, Cnn

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

  Billy Corgan

  Band, World, Situation

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• When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.

  Tom Jones

  Song, School, Kids

  "What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• America is far less safe and the world is far less stable than when Obama made the decision to pub Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.

  Donald Trump

  America, Decision, World

  "And Then the Balloons Dropped, and Then the World Started Coming to an End" by Margaret Doris, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

  Edgar Wright

  Looks, London, Strange

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feminist

  "Caitlin Moran: 'Let's all go and be feminists in the pub'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

  P. D. James

  Morning, Years, Two

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.12, Vintage

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Stupid, Calling, Able

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Today, England

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The aim of dis-incumbence is a hubristic one, for it requires confidence in the ability of men and women to live in the belief that nothing they do can, in the end, be justified by anything. That's a belief that it is easy to proclaim in seminar rooms or pubs, but not one that people could actually live with.

  David E. Cooper

  Men, People, Rooms

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

  Rose Byrne

  Art, Class, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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