Pubs Quotes - Page 8

• Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Home, Cities

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• I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

  Luke Treadaway

  Night, Design, Able

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• And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Book, Reading

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll", 2004.

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• 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, Three, Littles

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.

  Sean Pertwee

  Nice, Light, Doors

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• I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Years, People

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• You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

  Peter Costello

  Lying, Years, Magazines

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• We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Databases, Medical

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• Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
  That's the fate of every Magpie
  While Mam perfects her game show skills
  Giving talks at the WI

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Fate, Games

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• More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.

  Jonathan Ross

  America, World, Action

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• No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Army, Weekend, Night

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• You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.

  Richey Edwards

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Toots Thielemans

  Sunday, Parent, Musician

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• Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Morning, Dublin, Purgatory

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• Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

  Steven Morrissey

  Church, Body, Wrecks

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• Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.

  Henry Cavill

  Stupid, Drinking, Gay

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• My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.

  Leona Lewis

  School, People, Gigs

  "Is Leona Lewis too sweet to be a star?" by Liz Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 1, 2008.

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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• In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.

  Tom Shields

  Moon, Land, Littles

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• I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other according to the class they belong to. If they are punk-rocker kids from the neighborhood, they are going form a band. If they happen to be musicians that are going to play in pubs and restaurants, they are going to recognize each other, form a band and play together. If it's about musicians that are playing jazz and are going to jazz festivals, for e.g., then they are going to meet and work together.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  Kids, Class, Play

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Dublin, Lasts

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• I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?

  Emma Bunton

  Hate, Guy, Lines

  "Q&A: The Spice Girls". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rollingstone.com. March 6, 1997.

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• I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

  Rick Astley

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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