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Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. -- Michael Bloomberg
Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not. -- Karen Marie Moning
My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles. -- Mary Roach
My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles. -- Mary Roach
When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again." -- Hamilton Leithauser
The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked. -- Hamilton Leithauser
I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me." -- Dion DiMucci
I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese. -- Johnathon Schaech
Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two. -- Don Johnson
Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym. -- Frank Bruno
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You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player. -- Sid Waddell
In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! -- Jenson Button
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. -- Oliver Reed
All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub. -- Samantha Mumba
I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed. -- Rhys Ifans
I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon. -- Rory McCann
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey. -- Sally Phillips
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. -- Jeff Lindsay
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. -- James Purefoy
I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed. -- Nick Frost
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. -- David Soul
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win. -- Peter Capaldi
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting. -- Ellie Goulding
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. -- Irvine Welsh
James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub. -- Billy Corgan
I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you. -- Dhani Harrison
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. -- Bryn Terfel
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.' -- Jo Brand
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores. -- Jeff Lindsay
I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.' -- Ross Kemp
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. -- Vinnie Jones
I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub. -- Matthew Lewis
I love pubs and I love pub culture. -- Jodie Whittaker
Let's all go and be feminists in the pub. -- Caitlin Moran
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. -- James Joyce
More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson. -- Jonathan Ross
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub! -- J. K. Rowling
Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy. -- Nathan Lowell
Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen. -- Frank Carson
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!! -- Bill Bailey
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s. -- Huey Lewis
Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector! -- Sarah Rees Brennan
If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then YouÂ´re a good band. -- Paul McCartney
Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format' -- Bill Bailey
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? -- Neil Gaiman
Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money -- Steven Morrissey
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. -- Jack Kerouac
good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead. -- Warren Ellis
You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back. -- Aasif Mandvi
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. -- Eric Idle
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie. -- Rita Ora
When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent. -- Jane Green
I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints. -- Pauline Quirke
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. -- Kevin Whately
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. -- John Hillaby
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting -- Dorian Yates
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. -- William Blake
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink. -- Pete McCarthy
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. -- Alex Kapranos
You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. -- Dave Davies
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs. -- Kevin Spacey
I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub. -- Max Irons
Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability. -- Bill Bailey
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub. -- Anthony Bourdain
One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger. -- Peter Kay
Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does. -- Gurinder Chadha
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative. -- Bill Bailey
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden. -- Michael Hutchence
There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches. -- Frank Carson
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam. -- Joe Orton
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. -- Dean Karnazes
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times. -- Joe Cocker
I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair. -- Harry Treadaway
I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it. -- Martha Grimes
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? -- Michael Flatley
In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox. -- Barbara Holland
Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI -- John Walter Bratton
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night. -- Luke Treadaway
A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road. -- Tommy Cooper
Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox. -- Ned Beauman
I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction. -- Ned Beauman
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. -- John Crowe Ransom
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. -- Hugh Dancy
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. -- Jason Flemyng
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. -- Toots Thielemans
I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub. -- Jimmy Carr
I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx. -- Adrian McKinty
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution. -- John Lennon
I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me. -- Mark Roberts
Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.' -- Paul Weller
When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all. -- Noel Fielding
I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said to me at a pub, "Do you come here often?" Thats an awful line. -- Emma Bunton
in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all. -- Jim Butcher
When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived -- Arthur Koestler
If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not. -- Tom Kerridge

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