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“It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.”

Ideas Reality Pleasure Technology Imagine Design Inspire Bars Brands Visuals Shock Riding

Author:Nigel Sylvester

“Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.”

Mines Months Alcohol Bars Willpower Wagons Scotch

Author:E. B. White

“The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”

“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.”

Truth Causes Accepting Prepared Bars Censorship

Book:The First Circle

Source: The First Circle

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

Love Opportunity Behinds Prison Supreme Bars Missed Opportunity Prison Bars

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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.”

Art Philosophy Whole Natural History Middle Limits Bars Cages Miscellaneous

Author:Andre Gide

“Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.”

May Used Causes Abuse Ancient Lawyer Bars Quotations

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.”

Running Sex Middle Drink Shapes Bars Smoke Diets Making Love Mars Calories

Author:Lisa S.

“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.”

Way Mean Doors Bars Locked Neurotic

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“The bars on our cage are of our own making.”

Bars Cages

Author:Jessie Burton

“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!”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Shows Kids Boys Sells Productions Bars Chocolate Boy Scout Chocolate Bars

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.”

Pleasure Bars Jury

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

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

Men Should Christ Brother Built Shame Prison Bounds Bars Bricks

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.”

Men Earth Eating Bars Candy Candy Bar

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.”

People Ifs Men Want May Young Dies Fall Girl Fighting Results Dancing Bars Insult Skirts Short Skirts

Author:Vivian Balakrishnan

“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.”

People Men World Shows Gay My Favorite Bars Drag Favorites Things

Author:Steve Kazee

“When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.”

Thinking Fall Fun Bars Celebrate Relax Seconds Jumping Exhilaration Aggressiveness

Author:Jenn Suhr

“Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.”

Real Moving Dies Leader Bars Improving Mediocre Always Improving

Author:Jean Giraudoux

“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.”

May Persons Justice Failing Guilt Bars Guilty Wickedness Hangman Guilty Person

Author:Seneca the Younger

“My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.”

Mean Able Successful Bars Being Successful Really Mean

Author:Channing Tatum

“I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.”

People Bars

Author:Tina Fey

“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.”

Heart Happened Window Accounts Suicide Bars Chill Corpses Spine Frail

Book:Les Belles Images

Source: Les Belles Images

“I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.”

Home Special Areas Gold Bars Locals Beach Fascinated Coast Palms Spectacular Harbors Demographics Palm Beach

Author:Nelson DeMille

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

Made I Can Nice Bars Salad Fries French Fries Some Nice

Author:Fiona Apple

“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.”

Rooms Cities Drink Paper Bars Journalism Papers

Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“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.”

Fighting Punishment Bars Civilized Texas Knives Frequency Razors Texan

Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.”

Ideas Film Hollywood Bars Eagles Nests Great Idea Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:David Mamet

“So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.”

Home Jobs Night Stuff Summer Clubs Bars Playing Music Resumes

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”

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Book:For Love and Money: A Writing Life

Source: For Love and Money: A Writing Life

“Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.”

Bars Presidential Prose

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.”

Matter Half Silence Subjects Horse Customers Bars Bored Serving Denied Subject Matter

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.”

Drinking Bars

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.”

Firsts Funny Order Lessons Mouths Humorous England Dresses Ill Bars Teeth Evening Lawns Tangled Ill Health

Book:The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

Source: The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

“The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.”

Littles Humor Funny Wish Groups Rocks Design Humorous Bars Ruins Hotel Italian Tourists Frowning

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.”

Ifs Want Should Kids Courses Pay Relationship Taxes Bars Mud Candy Pennies Bicycle Sidewalk Candy Bar

Author:Jim Rohn

“We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.”

Kind Friendship Rooms Mines Bars Mess Buddy

Author:Merle Haggard

“If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.”

Ifs Want Certain Track Bars Beach Shade Beaten

Author:Jenny Eclair

“I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.”

Term Emotional Bars Wedding Day Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah Coronation

Book:Past-It Notes

Source: Past-It Notes

“Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.”

Book Law Months Clubs Bars Association

Author:Melvin Belli

“Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.”

Thinking Existence Pride Gay Activism Bars Bleak Gay Pride Double Life Gay Life

Author:Larry Kramer

“21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.”

Years Long Stills America Media Industry Long Time Bars Serving Ceo

Author:Michael Eisner

“I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.”

Stuff Too Much Bars Circle Of Friends

Author:Adam Sandler

“I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.”

Ifs Men Should Has Beens Enough Remember Careers Fate Should Have Bars Agents Should Have Been Torches Quirky Sidekicks

Author:Whitney Cummings

“Another show I really enjoyed working on was Raising The Bar. I did four or five episodes of that show.”

Shows Five Four Bars Enjoyed Episodes Raising The Bar

Author:Max Greenfield

“If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.”

People Ifs Would Be Behinds Company Failing Duty Responsible Safety Bars Corporations

Author:Nina Bawden

“Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.”

Thinking Needs Winning Millions Plans Raises Prepared Bars Be Prepared Business Plan Raising The Bar

Author:Swizz Beatz

“Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.”

Would Be Stars Dark Forget Failing Conversation Ideals Bars Checks Parks Make Out Dark Places When All Else Fails Checking Out Schmoozing

Author:Brooke Burke

“I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.”

Two Mother Animal Behinds Vision Dog Losing Sitting Scared Bars My Dog Adopting So Sad Fostering

Author:Linda Blair

“As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!”

Said Lovers Tough Bars Fighter

Author:Michael Biehn

“When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.”

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Author:Ron Ben-Israel

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