Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Honore de Balzac

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Honore de Balzac

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

Honore de Balzac

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Jackie Chan

Coffee is a language in itself.

Irving Berlin

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

Ingrid Bergman

Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

Lily Collins

The weirdest moments for me are in Los Angeles when I go to a mall that I've shopped at since I was 12, and now there's like, massive pictures of our faces everywhere, at my local coffee shops now there's these billboards of people wearing the T-shirts and stuff. It's very strange, but it's really exciting.

Lev Grossman

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

Lauren Oliver

...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

Lauren Oliver

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

Lauren Oliver

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

Preet Bharara

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

Rabih Alameddine

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

Mike Myers

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.

Jodi Picoult

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

John Grisham

You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.

John Grisham

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

Kevin Mitnick

If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.

Margaret Thatcher

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

Lauren Oliver

Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.

Larry Wall

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

P. J. O'Rourke

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

Mae West

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

Lyle Lovett

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

Lucinda Williams

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Lorrie Moore

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

Mark Twain

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Mark Twain

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

Mark Twain

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Nick Offerman

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.