Cups Quotes - Page 2

• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics". Book by Michael Guillen, 1983.

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• The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

  Boyle Roche

  Half, Misery, Century

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• The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

  Lorrie Fair

  Games, Skills, World

  "U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns for Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  Ted Lindsay

  Memories, Winning, Night

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• Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Ice Cream, Cake

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• I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Differences

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• There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Fun, Water

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• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  Wendy Cope

  Christmas, Men, Earth

  Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

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• If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Player, Years, Two

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic". Interview with Ian Ridley, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

  Boy George

  Sex, Tea, Cups Of Tea

  "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.

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• The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

  Alan Hansen

  Stars, Winning, Boys

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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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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Cups Of Tea

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Wine

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  Art Garfunkel

  Soccer, Cheer, Years

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• I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

  Alan Hansen

  Team, World, Best Team

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• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Alan Hansen

  Winning, Defense, Brazil

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• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, Good Morning, Dog

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• Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack LaLanne

  Good Morning, Coffee, Sick

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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  Gary Lineker

  Years, World, Four

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