Bars Quotes

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. View quote
Axel Munthe
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
Married life is an existence with bars around it. View quote
Al Goldstein
You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible. View quote
Dan Millman
Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! -Thus the tale ended. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars. View quote
Yves Klein
When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere. View quote
Willie Nelson
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's "Rest in the Lord." It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure. View quote
Thomas Eakins
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know. (Hunter S. Thompson)
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again. View quote
Gary Snyder
I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. View quote
Rita Rudner
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. View quote
Huey P. Newton
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters? View quote
Bernard Mandeville
When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.' View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. (George Steiner)
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. View quote
Warren Buffett
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. View quote
Wentworth Miller
I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. View quote
Oswald Pohl
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. View quote
Charles Bukowski