Cups Quotes - Page 6

• The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Cheer, Coffee

  1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.

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• I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

  Ossie Davis

  Joy, Black, Secret

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

  Anne Fortier

  Destiny, Influence, Our Destiny

  Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.448, Ballantine Books

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• A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

  Andy Pick

  Team, Tree, One Day

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• Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Starbucks, Coffee Cup

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• It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Games, Different

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• It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Ice Cream, Years, Fans

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• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  Alan Hansen

  Team, Needs, World

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• People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

  Marcel Dionne

  Regret, Hockey, Winning

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• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glasses, Scotland, Tea

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Tables, Crash, Happens

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

  Katarina Witt

  Running, Coffee, Surfing

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• I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

  Jack Osbourne

  Coffee, People, House

  "Jack's Addiction: Jack Osbourne Talks About His Addiction And Recovery". Interview with MTV News' Gideon Yago, 2003.

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• Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

  Robert Wagner

  Coffee, Icons, Police

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• It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Coffee, Murder, Easier

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• We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

  Robbie Keane

  Teamwork, Taken, World

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• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

  Michael Moorcock

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Edginess

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• And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Eight

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• Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Fear, Fate, Bitterness

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.314, Macmillan

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• The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting." Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.

  Richelle Mead

  Moon, Talking, Interesting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.475, Penguin

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• Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

  Libba Bray

  Father, Fighting, Rocks

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Irritation, Brooklyn Bridge

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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