“I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license.” LongI CanLawPracticeBarsLicensePennsylvaniaAmishExpired Author:Rich Fulcher
“We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.” ThinkingHigherRaisedBars Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Certainly in business terms, considering how thriving the market is. Understanding what people want is essential. We have a team on the ground whose job it is to keep tabs on what's good, whether it's a tapas bar in Barcelona, or an amazing fish and chip shop in Yorkshire.” PeopleWantJobsUnderstandingTermTeamEssentialsFishesBarsShopsConsideringChipsBarcelonaYorkshireFish And ChipsTapas Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is crucial, so when you see pictures coming through on your social media, it does push you to be a little more creative and raise the bar a little bit higher.” FirstsLittlesDoeMightEyeSocialBitsCreativeFiveMinutesMediaHigherApproachLittle BitRaisesSocial MediaBarsNakedCrucialFive MinutesLiftingRaising The BarNaked Eyes Author:Gordon Ramsay
“It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.” ThinkingMenWorldFunWaterDogBedBarsPetDeliveryThinking About You Author:Eric Stonestreet
“I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came.But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.” KnowsBlackHellBarsInstanceBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Trevor Noah
“[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.” KnowsMenMeanDoeStillsReadingMomMy MomBarsCelebrateHebrewChoresBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Trevor Noah
“When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.” FeelsLooksRealWantedFiveStreetsReal LifeBarsBlockChairsCentsYardsFenceAdvertisementsOne DirectionCork Author:Denzel Washington
“In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.” PeopleNew YorkDrinkBarsGenerousTaxiCourteous Author:Quentin Crisp
“Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.” WantPartyBarsThemeNaziRabbiBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Billy Eichner
“Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.” YearsFirstsShowsLiteratureTermTvsEternityArmyHearingDinnerBarsTonightPrizeBobOscarsDylanPledgeAllegianceNobelNobel PrizePledge Of AllegianceBar Mitzvah Author:Kevin Sessums
“It's like, "Women can't handle things because they're always sad. That's estrogen." Men brag about testosterone, which makes them completely out of control too. On the other end of things, it's like, "Oh it was just testosterone. He got in a bar fight." Why is that better than crying at work?” MenEndsFightingCryBarsHandleBragTestosteroneEstrogen Author:Jen Kirkman
“My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.” ParentMy FamilyJewBarsOrthodoxFranklinBar Mitzvah Author:Nat Hentoff
“The matter of bringing in corrupt leaders was started by [Mwai ] Kibaki, and in truth, do not be surprised if you find that the likes of William Ruto find themselves behind bars after the elections, because he has cases pending against him.” IfsMatterBehindsLeaderCasesElectionBarsLikesPending Author:Raila Odinga
“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.” PeopleYearsJesusChristGayJesus ChristBarsPriestsCharlieYellingOrlandoCharlie Hebdo Author:Michael T. Flynn
“It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.” PeopleFunBarsEmpoweringGatesSoftwareBreakthroughThrillingMicrosoft Author:Bill Gates
“If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.” IfsBornWillingBarsBedroomBrothels Author:Max Lucado
“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.” PeopleMeanWalksLevelsTrumpCallingTragedyBarsRadicalNraOrlando Author:Chris Murphy
“Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.” CenturyBarsRevolutionary20th CenturyCastro Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.” KnowsMenSaidIdeasSeemsTurnsMorningMetsBarsEditorsGood IdeasEmbarrassedAlcoholicsBeverages Author:Daniel Handler
“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.” StoriesLyingArtistFourPlayerGroupsStreetsStyleYouthBandMembersMusicianStandingPerformancesCleanGuitarDecadesBarsParksGuitar PlayerHardcoreAcesHomegrownThose Who Lie Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.” PeopleMeanUseHurtSourceDrinkDrinkingUglyAlcoholBarsWitnessGood The Bad And The Ugly Author:Dwight Yoakam
“I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneShowsCarePrinciplesTrumpMajorityNotionIncludingCongressCoreBarsAdministrationHealth CareSupporterRepealing Author:Barack Obama
“If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill.” IfsKnowsWritingWellsKindWholeWalksRoomsCommunicationReaderEntertainmentStrangerWhole LifeBarsBranchesEmpoweringEngagementImaginaryEngagingJumping Author:George Saunders
“If you go into a bar or restaurant with a cop, the first thing he does is he'll stand in the entrance, and he'll look at every single face in that room because he doesn't want to spend an hour having a drink or lunch and didn't spot some villain they've been looking for, for two years.” IfsWantYearsFirstsLooksDoeTwoFacesHoursRoomsDrinkBarsSpotsRestaurantsTwo YearsLunchVillainCopEntrances Author:Peter James
“Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and staged more lavish parties. But in so doing, they've simply raised the bar that defines what's considered adequate in these categories.” ValuesPartyPercentBuiltBiggerRaisedBarsInequalityRisingAccomplishedCategoriesAdequateMansionsBeneficiaries Author:Robert H. Frank
“One of the things that happened is I did a lot of shitty gigs. When you do a bunch of shitty bar gigs you have to get used to people yelling at you, you're used to thinking on the fly, to dealing with weird situations.” PeopleThinkingUsedSituationHappenedBarsBunchGigsYelling Author:Joe Rogan
“I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.” PeopleHumansMeanSometimesUseEvilRealizingHuman BeingsComedyHeardGroupsGayDecidedBarsNew ThingsNastyHomosexualForbiddenYellingGay PeopleGood Words Author:Joe Rogan
“I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't have many comedy clubs where they are organizing more comedy nights in bars. I just think this is a fantastic time for stand up.” ThinkingNightComedyTownsClubsBarsFantasticComedianVenuesComedy Clubs Author:Joe Rogan
“My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.” IfsTwoStatesBodyEyeFacesUsedThreeEnergySidesPayAttentionSawsSadnessFellowsPrisonTinyBarsCrueltyUsed To BePay AttentionStaringMonkeysElephantsTigersCagesHopelessnessClownPerilCircusMichiganCementChainedShrinesGrabbingPacingWarehouseStepfathersSwayingMichigan State Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.” HeartBookHardAgePoliticalFourBabyIncludingBarsCompareExamBar Exam Author:Angela Alioto
“For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.” PeopleLittlesTwoReasonNationsBehindsClassMillionsCrimeRateBarsChosenPermanentLockedLocksParoleBrandedCrime RatesFelonsLock UpProbationClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“One study conducted in Washington, D.C. indicated that 3 out of 4 black men, and nearly all those living in the poorest neighborhoods could expect to find themselves behind bars at some point in their life.” MenBlackBehindsStudyBarsNeighborhoodPoorest Author:Michelle Alexander
“Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.” MenBlackCommunityBehindsHigherRateBarsBlack Community Author:Michelle Alexander
“For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative, who has either spent time behind bars or who has acquired a criminal record and thus is part of the under-caste - the group of people who can be legally discriminated against for the rest of their lives. For many African American children, their fathers, and increasingly their mothers, are behind bars. It is very difficult for them to visit. Many people are held hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.” PeopleChildrenHomeMotherFatherParentDifficultBehindsRecordsGroupsParticularCriminalsMilesBarsAfrican AmericanRelativeLoved OnesOddsMiles AwayCastesAway From Home Author:Michelle Alexander
“When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, interrogations, frisks, often for no reason other than their race. And, of course, this level of harassment sends a message to them, often at an early age: No matter who you are or what you do, you're going to find yourself behind bars one way or the other. This reinforces the sense that prison is part of their destiny, rather than a choice one makes.” MenWayMatterReasonAgeYoungCertainChoicesCoursesBlackLevelsRaceBehindsDestinyMessagesPoliceWho You ArePrisonBarsOne WayNo ReasonFinding YourselfTargetHarassmentIncarcerationInterrogation Author:Michelle Alexander
“There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.” PersonsHas BeensStillsPurposeBirdFunctionBarsTrappedWire Author:Michelle Alexander
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.” PeopleNeedsFeelsSaidFeelingsBigsGamesNationsHappenedFiguresFootballEuropeConcernDown AndWestBarsRelatedSignificanceSpectacularFootball GameAthensBartenderBasic NeedsFootball Match Author:Irvine Welsh
“None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.” IfsWayTryingMeanTogetherIndividualResultsAirConceptsPropertyBarsSomething NewMetalsAirplaneInherentRight WayParallelsHunkJaguarsContainment Author:David Eagleman
“This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The actual Chemical Weapons Convention. Not the version that [Barack] Obama presented in his address to the nation and that media commentators repeat. What he said is that the convention bars the use of chemical weapons. He knows better. And so do the commentators. The Chemical Weapons Convention calls for banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, not just the use. So why omit production and storage?” KnowsSaidMomentsUseWould BeNationsMiddleMediaWeaponsVery GoodProductionsEastBarsVersionsBarackRepeatsAddressesChemicalsConventionsMiddle EastInstituteCommentatorsImposingStorageChemical WeaponsGood Moments Author:Noam Chomsky
“Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.” PlayUseFrontsLike YouMachinesDollarsEightBarsMotiveMelodyYou Like It Author:Miles Davis
“I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.” PeopleWritingI CanPlayUsedStuffBarsChordsColtrane Author:Miles Davis
“When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindStatesEnoughPlayUsedNightThreeHoursFourFrontsCollegeListeningEatingDrinkingUniversityEastBarsBeerFour YearsBellsChipsJarsPlaying MusicQuarterbackTennesseeBarbecueDrinking BeerStoolsTacosTaco BellIgnore MeEast Tennessee Author:Kenny Chesney
“There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.” LittlesStillsBarsGreat Things80sMondayMikeWednesdayLittle Money Author:Jon Gordon
“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.” MenSaidSometimesPastUsedGuyWalksListeningMusicianBirdTownsBarsChecksTraditionalFranceGreekRestaurantsHanging OutStanding OutHornsBuddyJust ListenReacting Author:Jon Gordon
“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.” IfsWayLittlesMomentsFeelingsSeemsDesireVoiceActingAttentionDoubtHavensFiguresParticularAdultsShadowPaidBarsAddressesCandyActing OutCandy Bar Author:Danny Boyle
“Even behind bars, even on Death Row, you can fail up, because life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free.” MindMayStillsStatesLife IsSpiritBehindsAttitudeFailingCapacityBasesBarsState Of MindDeath RowMind Freedom Author:Tavis Smiley
“In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.” FeelsStrongActingMaterialsHigherConnectionsResponsibleBarsShouldersLoadGet OverStrong Connection Author:Bob Odenkirk