Coffee Break Quotes

• Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

  Steven Wright

  Coffee, Comedy, Break

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

  Stephen Hawking

  Coffee, Naps, Tough

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• Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

  Earl Wilson

  Coffee, Communication, Office

  "Fostering global discourse: it's time to embrace distance learning" by Kit Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

  James Mackintosh

  Coffee, Men, Mind

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• I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

  Lewis Black

  Coffee, Giving, Might

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.

  Billy Connolly

  Coffee, Talking, Lunch

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Running, Coffee

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• The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Average, Breakfast

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or stroke her bright hair back from her temple--was almost overpowering. He crossed his arms over his chest. "Yep, definitely time for a coffee break," he said, closing his eyes. "You see right through me.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Coffee, Eye, Hair

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• Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

  Laurie Anderson

  Coffee, Office, Wigs

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• When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from shopping to showers to panic attacks.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Coffee, Home, Suicidal

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

  Joan Collins

  Coffee, Exercise, Tuna Fish

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• "Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic."

  James Patterson

  Coffee, Mean, Evil

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, Book 3)". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

  Tana French

  Real, Coffee, Believe

  Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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