A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Carolyn G. HeilbrunI think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
Daniel RadcliffePaul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
Joni MitchellLincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Jonathan RabanJimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [confiscating drugs in a bar] What is this, a fuckin' hospital here?
The French Connection