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the King Cole room, and the Oyster Bar at Grand Central.
~ Donna Tartt
The candles, the orange gleam of firelight where she'd been standing made me think of the warmth of the wine bar, as if the light itself might be a passageway back to the night before and the little wooden table where we had sat knee to knee, her face washed with the same orange-tinged light.
~ Donna Tartt
At eight the bar was emptied of all but those whose goal was alcoholism
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Within, a cheerful bustle in the bar announced the near arrival of opening time. Eight ducks crossed the road in Indian file. A cat sprang up upon the bench, stretched herself, tucked her hind legs under her and coiled her tail tightly round them as though to prevent them from accidentally working loose. A groom passed, riding a tall bay horse and leading a chestnut with a hogged mane; a spaniel followed them, running ridiculously, with one ear flopped inside-out over his foolish head.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
~ Douglas Adams
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur sat at the bar and rested. He was used to not knowing what was going on. He felt comfortable with it.
~ Douglas Adams
What's that, forgone conclusion then you reckon, sir?' said the barman. 'Arsenal without a chance?' 'No, no,' said Ford, 'it's just that the world's about to end.
~ Douglas Adams
Ford slapped a five-pound note on the bar. He said, "Keep the change." "What, from a fiver? Thank you, sir." "You've got ten minutes left to spend it.
~ Douglas Adams
Ford Prefect was indeed in a seedy bar trying to talk somebody into buying him a drink and only achieving success as a total failure in this venture. The expression 'It is far better to give than receive' referred only to physical violence in this bar.
~ Douglas Adams
I read of 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. Killed ten billion people.
~ Douglas Adams
What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
~ Douglas Coupland
At the rear of the courtyard, several chairs had been placed beneath a vined trellis, and it was here Pickett at last spied Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. He was wearing a white linen suit similar to the one Pickett recalled from their meeting a fortnight or so earlier at a rooftop bar in Miami Beach. One leg was flung over the other, and beautifully made loafers of buttery leather were on his feet.
~ Douglas Preston
I don't think the Rattlers are coming back," I said, remembering the bar in the Hall of History. The Rattlers had come and gone during the Fourth Occupation, about nine million years ago, and nothing had been heard of them since.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
~ Alex Berenson
I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.
~ Ana de la Reguera
The piano has been drinking, not me.
~ Tom Waits
Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.
~ James Burrows
Don't build a bar for yourself. Build it for your customers. It's all about them: the walls, the finishes, the textures, the food, the beverages, literally everything has to be for them.
~ Jon Taffer
To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.
~ Dimebag Darrell
I got pantsed in 'Bar Wars,' the number-one rated episode of 'Cheers' all time. I'm very proud of that.
~ Wade Boggs
Tiffany had taken Mac to Lettuce Eat, a salad bar extravaganza. I couldn't see that working out, but if it did, I figured Mac's feelings for her were true.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I went up to a girl in a bar once and asked her where she was from. I guess she wasn't interested, because she said, "Mars." So I asked, "You need a ride home?"
~ Ray Romano