Cafes Quotes - Page 3

• A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Rain, Cutting

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

  Hugh Jackman

  War, Coffee, Hard Work

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Queens, Media

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• Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Rome, Hands

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• I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Couple, Coffee, Writing

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 07, 2007.

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• I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Dark, Caring

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Home, Night

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• When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

  Agnes Denes

  Gone, Sitting, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Rome, Paris, Ancient

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

  Saul Williams

  People, Sitting, Parks

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Internet Access, Politics, Firsts

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• What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

  Jami Attenberg

  Notebook, Morning, Thinking

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• Jumping off that cliff in Jamaica.It was years ago. It was at this place called Rick's Cafe. Actually, it was two cliffs. They were pretty high, probably a good 40- 50-foot jump into the ocean. That was crazy.

  Queen Latifah

  Crazy, Ocean, Jumping

  Source: www.craftychica.com

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• I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to write in all kinds of situations, whether it's at home on my couch, out at a cafe, or traveling.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Writing, Mean

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

  J. K. Rowling

  Regret, Knowing, Sitting Down

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

  Karl Pilkington

  Tattoo, Wife, Saws

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• CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

  Amy Ridenour

  Impact, Adoption, Environmental

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• Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Home, Night, Class

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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• Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Advice, Next, Facts

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• Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

  Noel Coward

  Vegas, Las Vegas

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