Tea Quotes - Page 26

• I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Threatening, Inviting

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.70, Penguin

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

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• She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

  Willy Russell

  Husband, Feminist, Bed

  "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

  Steve Hockensmith

  Warrior, Mrs Bennet, Battle

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• [from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it

  Andy Stanton

  Drinking, Mean, People

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• New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s what they don’t know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I’d join the Tea Party.

  Bill Maher

  Queens, Party, Believe

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• Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

  Libba Bray

  School, Skills, Feet

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Suicidal, Cake

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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, Coffee, Life Is Like

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• I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Black And White, Tuna Fish

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• The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, America, Balance

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• Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, Movement, Juniors

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2010.

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• It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

  Jeff Goodell

  Party, America, Effort

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• The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

  Hosokawa Tadaoki

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

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• Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

  Derren Brown

  Cake, Reason

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• I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Two, Get Up

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• Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

  Russ Feingold

  Wall, Party, Glasses

  "Feingold courts tea party votes" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 08, 2010.

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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Games, Tough

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• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Apples, Sunflower, Paper

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, America, Shills

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Mother, Fun, Heart

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• The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, People, Sitting

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

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