"Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret."

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Source : J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

J. R. Moehringer

#Regret Quotes #People Quotes #Bars Quotes

“How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.”
“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”
“There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.”

Source : "Dr. Frank Jobe dies at age 88" by Mark Saxon, abcnews.go.com. March 07, 2014.
“There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.”
“When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.”
“A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.”
“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.”
“As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.”

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