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I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.' -- Nico Tortorella
Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant. -- Danny Meyer
I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver. -- Dana Perino
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. -- Gregory Orr
I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. -- Al Jarreau
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. -- Omar Khayyam
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? -- John Keats
This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship. -- Kirsten Miller
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. -- Georg Trakl
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. -- Jonathan Swift
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. -- Norman Douglas
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. -- Samuel Johnson
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling. -- Henry Mayhew
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. -- Mikhail Bakunin
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic! -- Al Jarreau
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern. -- Alice Morse Earle
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. -- Samuel Johnson
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2. -- Danny Meyer
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. -- John Boehner
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. -- Henry David Thoreau
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. -- Samuel Johnson
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto. -- Cormac McCarthy
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. -- Thomas Hood
A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat. -- Randy Travis
And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage. -- John Masefield
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me. -- Archpoet
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. -- Greg X. Graves
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr.""Like a tavern? Like a soap?""My father's name is Barr.""Oh. And I love it! -- Brian K. Vaughan
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling -- Henry Mayhew
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. -- Johannes Brahms
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth? -- Graham Greene
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session. -- Marshall McLuhan
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately. -- Volker Ullrich
Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer. -- Jon Stewart
He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution. -- Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

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