Clubs Quotes

• I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Change
  • University
  • Clubs

• I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Path

• When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Quality
  • Values
  • Passports

• I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

  

  Nicole Gale Anderson
  • School
  • Easy
  • Middle

• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Scene
  • London
  • Crowds

• When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Culture
  • Firsts
  • Social

• Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

  

  Merritt Wever
  • Giving
  • Invited
  • These

• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Diamond
  • Emblems

• The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.

  

  Chipper Jones
  • Hurt
  • Winning
  • Chance

• When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • House
  • Culture
  • Broke

• What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Realize
  • Clubs
  • Guitars

• When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Feels
  • London
  • Blokes

• One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • People
  • Country
  • Nice

• What I've realized is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?

  

  Shiloh Fernandez
  • Wonder
  • Feels
  • Drink

• …She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Bridges

• We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Deals
  • Paid
  • Prestige

• I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.

  

  Andy Bell Oasis
  • I Love
  • Clubs
  • Dance Music

• If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Games
  • Cards
  • Surround

• I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

  

  Michel Platini
  • World
  • France
  • Regions

• I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Teenager
  • Going
  • Manhattan

• Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Clubs

• If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Bombs

• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Action
  • Kings
  • Groups

• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  

  Nicole Gale Anderson
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Huge

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