Quotes about Bars

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. Votes: 5

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. Votes: 3

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. Votes: 3

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. Votes: 3

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Votes: 3

A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away Votes: 3

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. Votes: 3

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Votes: 3

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? Votes: 3

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? Votes: 3

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. Votes: 3

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. Votes: 3

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Votes: 3

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Votes: 3

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. Votes: 3

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. Votes: 3

No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need. Votes: 3

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Votes: 3

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. Votes: 3

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else? Votes: 3

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. Votes: 3

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. Votes: 3

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection. Votes: 3

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink. Votes: 3

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. Votes: 3

It had been a wake-up call and now all she wanted was to keep her dad in sight and make sure he didn't eat too many Mars Bars or drink too much beer. Votes: 3

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. Votes: 3

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. Votes: 3

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. Votes: 1

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. Votes: 1

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. Votes: 1

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. Votes: 1

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Votes: 1

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. Votes: 1

I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid! Votes: 1

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars. Votes: 1

While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter. Votes: 1

I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude! Votes: 1

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that. Votes: 1

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. Votes: 1

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. Votes: 1

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook. Votes: 1

One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them. Votes: 1

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across. Votes: 1

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. Votes: 1

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Votes: 1

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. Votes: 1

I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I'd also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people, and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict. Votes: 1

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. Votes: 1

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee. Votes: 1

I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast. Votes: 1

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside. Votes: 1

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. Votes: 1

Start three bars before something. Votes: 0

Not all prisons have bars Votes: 0

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars. Votes: 0

Keep the bars open-we're coming home. Votes: 0

Kindness is stronger than iron bars. Votes: 0

I carry the bars within me. Votes: 0

I am invisible in gay bars. Votes: 0

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. Votes: 0

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance. Votes: 0

Out of the bars and into the streets! Votes: 0

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars. Votes: 0

Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough. Votes: 0

I can play all I know in eight bars. Votes: 0

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense. Votes: 0

Where, oh, where are my WWE ice cream bars?! Votes: 0

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. Votes: 0

Married life is an existence with bars around it. Votes: 0

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars Votes: 0

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. Votes: 0

The bars on our cage are of our own making. Votes: 0

I spent a lot of time between bars like this. Votes: 0

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars. Votes: 0

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. Votes: 0

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Votes: 0

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you. Votes: 0

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. Votes: 0

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. Votes: 0

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo. Votes: 0

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars? Votes: 0

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter. Votes: 0

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. Votes: 0

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders. Votes: 0

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world. Votes: 0

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky. Votes: 0

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky Votes: 0

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars. Votes: 0

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage. Votes: 0

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars. Votes: 0

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide. Votes: 0

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire. Votes: 0

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. Votes: 0

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. Votes: 0

When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. Votes: 0

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. Votes: 0

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique. Votes: 0

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. Votes: 0

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages. Votes: 0

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America. Votes: 0

Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money. Votes: 0

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars. Votes: 0

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years. Votes: 0

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. Votes: 0

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting Votes: 0

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. Votes: 0

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. Votes: 0

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars. Votes: 0

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. Votes: 0

Although I love the taste of Nutrageous bars, I am nutraged at their new, high price. Votes: 0

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. Votes: 0

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting. Votes: 0

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck Votes: 0

In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Votes: 0

Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars Votes: 0

We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars Votes: 0

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars. Votes: 0

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow. Votes: 0

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet. Votes: 0

Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison. Votes: 0

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother. Votes: 0

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all. Votes: 0

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. Votes: 0

Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. Votes: 0

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. Votes: 0

Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars. Votes: 0

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. Votes: 0

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. Votes: 0

BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals! Votes: 0

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration. Votes: 0

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides. Votes: 0

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. Votes: 0

I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight. Votes: 0

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go. Votes: 0

I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. Votes: 0

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. Votes: 0

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' Votes: 0

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. Votes: 0

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me. Votes: 0

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret. Votes: 0

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. Votes: 0

One of the things I want to find out is where the hell are the WWE ice cream bars?! Votes: 0

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man. Votes: 0

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. Votes: 0

Cavities are made by sugar. So if you need to dig a hole, then lay down some candy bars! Votes: 0

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film. Votes: 0

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. Votes: 0

I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up. Votes: 0

Women are like bars of soap. After a while they lose their freshness, become worn and a bit hairy. Votes: 0

I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line. Votes: 0

The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit. Votes: 0

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love Votes: 0

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA. Votes: 0

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. Votes: 0

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques. Votes: 0

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love. Votes: 0

I like to go to bars and bang really ugly girls, I just like to, I'm just a sick guy. Votes: 0

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster. Votes: 0

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump. Votes: 0

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door Votes: 0

Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. Votes: 0

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. Votes: 0

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. Votes: 0

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m. Votes: 0

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them. Votes: 0

He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan. Votes: 0

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. Votes: 0

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record. Votes: 0

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. Votes: 0

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars. Votes: 0

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free. Votes: 0

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there? Votes: 0

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars. Votes: 0

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars Votes: 0

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. Votes: 0

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them. Votes: 0

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. Votes: 0

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones. Votes: 0

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars... Votes: 0

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right. Votes: 0

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke. Votes: 0

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like. Votes: 0

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem. Votes: 0

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars. Votes: 0

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important. Votes: 0

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.. Votes: 0

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that. Votes: 0

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind. Votes: 0

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. Votes: 0

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. Votes: 0

Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though. Votes: 0

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other Votes: 0

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars. Votes: 0

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. Votes: 0

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars. Votes: 0

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. Votes: 0

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Votes: 0

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money. Votes: 0

I always have applesauce in my fridge, and when traveling I take protein bars just in case I get hungry. They're my go-to snack. Votes: 0

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?' Votes: 0

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels. Votes: 0

New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack. Votes: 0

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars. Votes: 0

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. Votes: 0

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers. Votes: 0

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character. Votes: 0

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! Votes: 0

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. Votes: 0

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me. Votes: 0

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. Votes: 0

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson. Votes: 0

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. Votes: 0

Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?' Votes: 0

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment. Votes: 0

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. Votes: 0

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims. Votes: 0

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way. Votes: 0

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation. Votes: 0

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am. Votes: 0

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks! Votes: 0

Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit. Votes: 0

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert. Votes: 0

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs Votes: 0

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. Votes: 0

Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest. Votes: 0

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. Votes: 0

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal. Votes: 0

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that? Votes: 0

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. Votes: 0

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house. Votes: 0

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it. Votes: 0

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you. Votes: 0

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer. Votes: 0

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there. Votes: 0

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars. Votes: 0

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging. Votes: 0

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect. Votes: 0

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?' Votes: 0

Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it's behind bars." "It's a zoo, Iggy," Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything's behind bars. Votes: 0

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again. Votes: 0

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff. Votes: 0

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day. Votes: 0

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners Votes: 0

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble. Votes: 0

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. Votes: 0

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since. Votes: 0

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.' Votes: 0

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine. Votes: 0

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it. Votes: 0

If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars. Votes: 0

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. Votes: 0

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars. Votes: 0

You can't really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it's a highway with bars on it; that's what it is. Votes: 0

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's. Votes: 0

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard. Votes: 0

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do. Votes: 0

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15. Votes: 0

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. Votes: 0

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music. Votes: 0

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature. Votes: 0

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man. Votes: 0

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans. Votes: 0

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. Votes: 0

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace. Votes: 0

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. Votes: 0

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. Votes: 0

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour. Votes: 0

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems? Votes: 0

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars. Votes: 0

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. Votes: 0

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles. Votes: 0

In freedom you form in utter disgrace,the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,it is I who deserve to take flight." Votes: 0

What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed? Votes: 0

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before. Votes: 0

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours. Votes: 0

When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces. Votes: 0

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.... Votes: 0

The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars. Votes: 0

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books. Votes: 0

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them! Votes: 0

The room inside is definitely the biggest plus of the car. Your head is not anywhere near the (roll) bars, like it's sitting against the bars in the other (current) cars. Votes: 0

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community. Votes: 0

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life. Votes: 0

There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars. Votes: 0

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it. Votes: 0

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them! Votes: 0

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music. Votes: 0

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open. Votes: 0

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house. Votes: 0

Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars. Votes: 0

Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . . Votes: 0

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music. Votes: 0

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again. Votes: 0

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent. Votes: 0

We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you. Votes: 0

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time. Votes: 0

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. Votes: 0

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in. Votes: 0

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically. Votes: 0

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. Votes: 0

At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies. Votes: 0

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages. Votes: 0

People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight. Votes: 0

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. Votes: 0

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on. Votes: 0

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise. Votes: 0

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars. Votes: 0

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay. Votes: 0

The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America. Votes: 0

Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants. Votes: 0

Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time... Votes: 0

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. Votes: 0

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Votes: 0

We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The answers were maddeningly absent"”it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. Votes: 0

The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. ... primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness ... Votes: 0