“The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.” BookStuffEasierBarsReally GreatTopics Author:Mary Roach
“I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.” PersonsTurnsStuffTerribleClothesSittingDrinkingBarsSitting AroundPintsStuff I Like Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.” KindBodyThreeStuffTroubleWeekTypeMonthsStandardsLawyerBarsSuitsActivistMicrosoftBar MitzvahMitzvahWeird StuffMouthpieceDrm Book:Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future Source: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
“Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.” BookHardStuffQuietBarsIronBloodySonnetSeducingEtherealMonasteriesVeneerBook Learning Author:Janice Galloway
“When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.” KnowsDoeMatterPlaySongStuffPayRecordsInfluenceDrawsDuesBarsGreat ThingsTanks Author:Eric Church
“The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.” HumansSpiritualStuffMagicCarColorTypeSkinsDancingBarsWho We AreTemporaryHuman ExperienceSpiritual Beings Author:RuPaul
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr