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  • At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

    Sports   Swings   Doors  
    Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
  • I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

    Horse   Fun   Book  
    "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.
  • There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

    Horse   Fun   Passion  
  • The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

    Baby   Loneliness   Men  
    Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage
  • Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  • Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

    Media   America   People  
    "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.
  • Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

    Brother   Hate   League  
  • Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

  • The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

    Men   Devil   Rope  
    Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
  • Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

    Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
  • The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

    Cheer   Liars   Lying  
    Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
  • I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

    Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
  • I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

    Christmas   Office   Guy  
  • I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  • I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

  • The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

    Fall   Rocks   Climbing  
    John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.2009, e-artnow
  • You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  • Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

  • As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

  • Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

    Song   People   Church  
  • There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

  • My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

    Dog   Book   Reading  
    Thomas Hood (1860). “Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches”, p.154
  • The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

    Drunk   Asking   Stories  
  • I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

  • What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

    Home   Office   Calling  
  • If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

  • men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

    Drinking   Men   Facts  
    Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
  • It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!

    Girl   Tights   Stories  
  • The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

    Girl   Soldier   Hot  
  • Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

    Drinking   Beer   Dancing  
    "Fictional character: Otis B. Driftwood". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.
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