Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

Burt Lancaster

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Kristin Cavallari

I don't typically drink coffee.

Knut Hamsun

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Mike Dirnt

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

Kate DiCamillo

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Karin Fossum

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

Karen Thompson Walker

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

Katie Couric

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

Kim Harrison

I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.

Kim Harrison

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

Kim Harrison

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.

Kim Harrison

My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.

Kim Harrison

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

Kevin Nealon

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

Ice Cube

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

Mark Pendergrast

For the last 10 years, it's been gathering in popularity. You don't need to get drunk to have a good time socially. It's a good place to gather. It's a very positive thing that coffee is popular. It's a way to study in a pleasant environment.

Jack Osbourne

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.

Isak Dinesen

There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.

Isak Dinesen

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

Irvin Kershner

We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

Iris Murdoch

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Hunter Parrish

I don't even drink coffee.

Gloria Steinem

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Giorgio Armani

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

J. K. Rowling

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

Grace Jones

That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.

Grant Achatz

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Jerry Baldwin

Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.

Jennifer Aniston

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

Ellen DeGeneres

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

Hugh Laurie

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Hugh Jackman

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.