Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
Bars quotes
Bars
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve."
Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"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."
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"It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage."
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"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
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"The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars."
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"The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose."
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"Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God."
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"You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."
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"You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me."
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"Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps."
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"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow."
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"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
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"It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar."
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"We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome."
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"You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose."
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"You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless."
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"The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings."
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"Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him."
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"A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind."
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"Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell."
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"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
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"Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds."
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