Cups Quotes - Page 3

• I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

  Jeremy London

  Stay Strong, World, Cricket

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• A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Perseverance, Coffee, Pin Up Girl

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• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Trying, Experts

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

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• I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

  Ethel Merman

  Tea, Kitchen, I Can

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

  Michel Patini

  Ideas, Personality, Finals

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

  Eric Bristow

  Winning, Australia, Legs

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Eye, Thinking

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• I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Thinking, Winning

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• If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.

  Marouane Fellaini

  Cutting, Winning, Hair

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• You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

  Karl Pilkington

  Tea, Stuff, Newspapers

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

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

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• I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

  Diego Maradona

  World, Advantage, Because I Can

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• Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

  Deepak Chopra

  Karma, Memories, Coffee

  "Memory, Karma and Desire" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2015.

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• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Philosophical, Espresso

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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• I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

  John William Van Druten

  Food, Coffee, Thinking

  Quoted in Think, Feb 1963.

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• Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

  Gertrude Stein

  Being Yourself, Real, Coffee

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• No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Coffee, Offering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.60

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• Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

  Alphonse Allais

  Coffee, Sleep, Espresso

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• Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Espresso, Personality

  "Letterman Lets His Guard Down" by Bill Zehme, Esquire, December 1994.

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• Wake up and smell the coffee.

  Ann Landers

  Coffee, Espresso, Smell

  Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 1955.

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• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eyeglasses

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• Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

  Isaac McLellan

  Nature, Enchanted, Walks

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27

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• Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

  Julia Ward Howe

  Tea, Life Is Like, Age

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• It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

  Carole Wilkinson

  Emptiness

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• For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Drinking, Yummy

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.97, Hachette UK

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