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  • 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. -- Garth Hudson
  • I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. -- Charles Bukowski
  • 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. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. -- George Carlin
  • I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. -- Bill Murray
  • I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. -- Edward de Bono
  • A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away -- Emily Dickinson
  • A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
  • The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. -- Axel Munthe
  • We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. -- David Brenner
  • I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. -- Warren Buffett
  • An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need. -- Jon Taffer
  • The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. -- Wilson Mizner
  • We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. -- Don Rickles
  • 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? -- Ian MacKaye
  • Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. -- C. S. Lewis
  • In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. -- Doris Roberts
  • 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. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. -- Judith Viorst
  • 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. -- Keri Russell
  • 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. -- William H. Gass
  • 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. -- Aynsley Dunbar
  • 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. -- Drew Barrymore
  • 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. -- Vicky Pattison
  • 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. -- Tori Amos
  • 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. -- Graham Coxon
  • 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? -- Bernard de Mandeville
  • 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. -- Beau Bridges
  • Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. -- Beck
  • Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. -- Howard Hughes
  • I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. -- Nastia Liukin
  • The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. -- Huey Newton
  • I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. -- Emo Philips
  • 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! -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • 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. -- Wesley Snipes
  • 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. -- Christie Rampone
  • 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! -- Alicia Coppola
  • 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. -- Bill Burr
  • 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. -- Drake
  • 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. -- Eminem
  • 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. -- Drake
  • 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. -- Carla Hall
  • 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. -- Eric Liu
  • 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. -- Wentworth Miller
  • 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. -- Helen Garner
  • 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. -- Mickey Rooney
  • 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. -- Michael Franti
  • 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. -- Beth Ditto
  • 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. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • 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. -- Summer Sanders
  • 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. -- Howard Schultz
  • 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'. -- Eminem
  • Start three bars before something. -- Eugene Ormandy
  • Not all prisons have bars -- Amanda Hocking
  • Keep the bars open-we're coming home. -- Jonathan Toews
  • One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars. -- David Mitchell
  • Kindness is stronger than iron bars. -- Margaret George
  • I carry the bars within me. -- Franz Kafka
  • I am invisible in gay bars. -- Billy Eichner
  • Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. -- Stephen King
  • It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance. -- Lisa Scottoline
  • Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough. -- Jon Taffer
  • I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars. -- Anton Yelchin
  • Out of the bars and into the streets! -- Harvey Milk
  • Where, oh, where are my WWE ice cream bars?! -- CM Punk
  • I can play all I know in eight bars. -- Charlie Parker
  • Married life is an existence with bars around it. -- Al Goldstein
  • Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense. -- Scott Eastwood
  • The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars -- Tariq Ramadan
  • Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. -- Dana Carvey
  • The bars on our cage are of our own making. -- Jessie Burton
  • I spent a lot of time between bars like this. -- Tammy Duckworth
  • I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. -- K. D. Lang
  • The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. -- Johnny Cash
  • We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars. -- Walid Jumblatt
  • Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter. -- Charles M. Schulz
  • I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
  • What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars? -- Nancy Grace
  • God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo. -- Dave Mustaine
  • I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. -- Richard Lovelace
  • You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you. -- J.R. Ward
  • My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders. -- Dean Winters
  • No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky -- Mary Tyler Moore
  • Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world. -- Mason Cooley
  • It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky. -- Mary Tyler Moore
  • I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars. -- Daniel Craig
  • I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide. -- Keith Carradine
  • I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars. -- Alan Moore
  • In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire. -- Katherine Mansfield
  • I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. -- Oswald Pohl
  • No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. -- Tony Ross
  • Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. -- William Shakespeare
  • You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique. -- Jo Stafford
  • When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. -- Horace
  • The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money. -- Sonia Faleiro
  • I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years. -- Michael Moriarty
  • Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars. -- Dale Carnegie
  • People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages. -- Alain de Botton
  • I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. -- Alexander Smith
  • We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars -- MF Grimm
  • When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting. -- Bobby Darin
  • A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. -- Helen Fisher
  • When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting -- Bobby Darin
  • I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. -- Andrew Eldritch
  • Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck -- Rachel Vincent
  • A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars. -- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
  • Although I love the taste of Nutrageous bars, I am nutraged at their new, high price. -- Dana Gould
  • Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. -- Gerard Way
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