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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."
"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."
"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."
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
"Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds."
"When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson."
"Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble."
"...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care."
"I carry the bars within me."
"There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole."
"The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long."
"Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it."
"A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members."
"Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace."
"Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'"
"The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything."
"Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar."
"I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena."
"Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free."
"If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity."
