Cafes Quotes

• I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

  Sophia Myles

  People, Watches, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  Zoe Kravitz

  People, Watches, Favorites Things

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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  Fannie Flagg

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

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• I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

  David Suchet

  Bored, Watches, Days Off

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

  Vivian Gornick

  Mind, Adequate, Language

  Vivian Gornick (1996). “Approaching Eye Level”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Everyday, Goes On

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• I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

  Eric Weiner

  Home, Thinking, Should Have

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Brain, Linked

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• You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

  Chris LeDoux

  Kind, Habit, Break

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• Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Track, Mind

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

  Joni Mitchell

  Fate, Dark, Drunk

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• I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

  Jonathan Lethem

  World, Laptops, Humans

  "Talk time: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

  Chris LeDoux

  Done, Firsts, Rodeo

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• CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

  Bob Lutz

  Trying, Size, Obesity

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• Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

  Linda McCartney

  People, Cooking, Six

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• The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Museums, Cities, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Games, Paris

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• I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, People, Challenges

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• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  Sadie Jones

  Noise, Study, Used

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• Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

  Ian Anderson

  Coffee, Men, Faces

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• Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

  Winona Ryder

  Book, Thinking, People

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• You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sex, Talking, Fake

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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• The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Army, Skeletons

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