I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub;… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used… — Jason Flemyng Copy Share Image
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq.… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a… — Martina Cole Copy Share Image
I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that,… — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs… — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,… — Manfred Mann Copy Share Image
I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have seen pretty horrible blokes thinking they can do pretty much what they like over the years, not just in showbusiness… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar… — Jason Flemyng Copy Share Image
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if… — Tom Kerridge Copy Share Image
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
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