Tea Quotes - Page 35

• The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

  John Adams

  Cutting, Night, Bridges

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.333

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• I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

  Eric Morecambe

  Morning, Grateful, Wife

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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

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• I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

  Rupert Friend

  Acceptance, Frustration, Use

  "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.

  Chicken John

  Law, Worship, Satan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Doctors, Advice, Routine

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• I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Coffee, Drink, Addict

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Unique, Rivers, Broken

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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• Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

  Rupert Giles

  Wish, Tense, Soothing

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Graduation Day: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

  Ann Leckie

  Essentials, Civilised, Ifs

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• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  Adam Hasner

  Strong, Party, Israel

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• Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

  Charles Haynes

  Numbers, Law, Southern

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• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  Apolo Ohno

  Perfect, Watches, Movement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

  Rumer Godden

  Apricots, Cups, Drink

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Fashion, Art, Mean

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• We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Differences, News

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

  Emily Bronte

  Temper, Effects, Alas

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.383, Penguin

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• Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

  Brandon Boyd

  Moving, Feelings, Way

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• If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will get cah-azy pussy. All the pussy. I don't mean literally. That might not be your cup of tea. I don't know what your version of 'all the pussy' is. But you'll get all the pussy.

  Sarah Silverman

  Mean, Pussy, Use

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Beloved Wife, Watches

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Clever, Garden, Style

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.157, e-artnow

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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