Dolores O'Riordan

I lived in a small village outside the city and grew up in a large family, so my world was very much centred around that. I used to sing in the local church, and I would also occasionally sing in the local pubs for which I used to get a few bob. That, for me, was the start of my interest in music, which has obviously expanded since then.

Irish Musician

Holly Willoughby

After doing kid's television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn't doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

English Celebrity

Jo Brand

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.

British Comedian

Theresa May

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.

British Politician

Peter O'Toole

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

Irish Actor

Jeff Lindsay

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

American Playwright

Isa Guha

That's how cricket should be broadcast. Ball-by-ball calling is important but you've got to be lighthearted like you're down the pub with your mates.

Paul Sinha

I get recognised by complete strangers in pubs, misrecognised by them and I dont have to work every weekend of my life anymore which is nice.

Oliver Reed

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

English Actor

Ricky Hatton

Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

British Athlete

Pubs often serve as social centers in communities for relaxation and meeting friends.

Social Hub

Pubs are relaxed and casual places; formal attire is not usually required.

Informal Setting

Many pubs host quiz nights, which are popular social events that involve answering trivia questions.

Pub Quiz Tradition

A publican is the manager or owner of the pub and may interact with customers.

Publican's Workplace

Some pubs have living space above where the publican or staff may reside.

Living Quarters

Old pubs may be historical sites and valued parts of the community.

Local Landmarks

 to some of the same places you took the writer?" And she said, "Sure, meet me at this little pub down the street from this hotel," she suggested I stay at. So, I checked into my hotel, I walked out of the hotel and there washing the window of my hotel was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. And so I took a few photographs, and she got really angry.

Alone Across the Outback...

 this please don't pick it but it looks like this help yourself this is about sharing and investing in kindness and for those people that don't want to do either of those things maybe they can cook so we pick them seasonally and then we go on the street or in the pub or in the church or wherever people are living their lives this is about us

How we can eat our...

 I was coming out of the pub after a few drinks." I stopped him there. I said, "I can explain that sighting." Psychologists have shown we can't trust our brains to tell the truth. It's easy to fool ourselves. I saw something, but what's more likely -- that I saw an alien spacecraft,

Where are all the...

 confrontations between males always begin with a shouting match they're kind of like two guys in a pub car park after closing time sizing each other up just letting rip with that enormous bellow and it resonates around that grotesque nose the bigger the seat the deeper it's

Up Close to Elephant...

 and he suckled the water of my thumb and then nibbled on the string cheese I'm a bear for me one of the important things to have on these trips morale is beer and we were like oh this will make a perfect little kennel for supper pub and

Explorers Save Abandoned...

 We're drawn to virtual romance, to computer games that seem like worlds, to the idea that robots, robots, will someday be our true companions. We spend an evening on the social network instead of going to the pub with friends.

Connected, but alone? PIPE...

 We don't work from offices. We meet at the cafe. We meet at the pub. We have zero infrastructure. And what we do, we become friends, and we find out what that person wants to do. The most important thing is passion.

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...

 Their essay would go viral, get translated into many languages, get debated at pubs and coffee houses and salons, and at dinner parties, and influence leaders, legislators, popular opinion.

Steven Pinker and...

 computer games that seem like worlds to the idea that robots robots will someday be our true companions we spend an evening on the social network instead of going to the pub with

Connected, but alone? -...

 pub and he wanted to take me to Amsterdam but I needed a passport I called Estella my mom pregnant always pregnant and I said I needed my birth

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