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Bar Quotes by Jonathan Raban
- There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.…
- Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
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- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. — Andrea Bocelli
- The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices… — Conrad Black
- I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs… — John Boehner
- My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. — John Boehner
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. — Edward de Bono
- The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. — Brandon Boyd
- When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. — David Brenner