Coffee Quotes - Page 21

• There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

  Amal El-Mohtar

  Ice Cream, Problem, Ice

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• Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

  Jason Wong

  Cute, Tea, Life Is Like

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• If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as rewarding because it's a lot lonelier, and most of the time it's just you alone in a dark room or a coffee shop. But a lot of writers have to write because they're writing for themselves, so whether or not someone sees your work or not- they're still writing because they absolutely have to.

  Ian Sansom

  Art, Writing, Dark

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• The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Two, People, Naked

  Adam Thirlwell (2004). “Politics”, Random House

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• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

  Tom Standage

  East, Spices, World

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• Anything worth having is hard to keep,
  I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
  So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
  I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.

  Ghostface Killah

  Sweet, Regret, Love You

  Song: You Know I'm No Good, Album: More Fish, 2006

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Rap, Eye

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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• I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

  Judy Collins

  Passion, Ideas, Voice

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• If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Lunch, Chocolate, Three

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• My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Sex, Chocolate, World

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• It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  People, Chocolate, Helpful

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.120, Vintage

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• People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Work, Home

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Dad, Years, Play

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• If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Needs, Looks

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• As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

  Gerard Way

  Sunglasses, Want, Starbucks

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Home, America, Long

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• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Bookstores

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• Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Breakfast, Want, Cigarette

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Glasses, Average

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Morning, Beer

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.318, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

  William Cobbett

  Tea, Slavery, Free Yourself

  "Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life".

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• I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

  Bill Hicks

  Real, Skins, Teeth

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• If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc

  Kate White

  Sex, Average, Years

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• And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Mother, Heart, Two

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Mean, Lunch, Romance

  Patti Stanger, Lisa Johnson Mandell (2009). “Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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