I am no book larnt man, but there is few who can beat me swapping horses or guessing at the weight of a bar. I have come here beca...use my people voted for me, knowing I was a honest man and could make as good whiskey and apple brandy at my still as any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'In a car like the Roxy I'd roll to the track, A steel-guitar trio, a bar in the back,... And the wheels made no noise, they turned over so fast, Still it took you ten minutes to see me go past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way I see it, God gave me the body, so I intend to use it. It's a big ego trip.... You know, you look around a bar, you pick o...ut a guy and you say, that's the one: I'm going to take all of his money tonight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Picture a room. It can be a bar, a fraternity, a living room and there are thirty men in it, sitting around a television, watching... football. The door opens, and they turn, and you walk in. And you're staying. Here's what they think. A) Do we really want her here? B) Can we still do what we usually do? C) Why would she want to be here anyway?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drin...k. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular poin...t, waiting to get set over,--children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but ...do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gi...ves forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »