Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Toby Jones

What happens is some of the characters I've played have voices that are so different from my own, that it would be ridiculous if I would dip in and out of that voice in between takes to ask for a coffee, or something. Or to gossip about whatever was going on.

Tim Ferriss

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Simon Sinek

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

Richard Brautigan

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Tim Gunn

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

Robert A. Heinlein

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

Tig Notaro

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

Tig Notaro

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

Steven Wright

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Lawrence Block

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

Natalie Coughlin

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

Natalie Goldberg

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds, come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

Shirley Henderson

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

Shelley Long

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

Robbie Williams

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

Julie Kagawa

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.

Joy Behar

I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

Julianna Margulies

I drink too much coffee.

Jules Michelet

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Joshua Jackson

Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

Julie Roberts

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

Judy Collins

I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

Keith Miller

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

Laurie Helgoe

One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

Laurie Anderson

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

Laurie Halse Anderson

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Sophia Loren

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?” Dexter wiped up a small coffee spill, the sat on the stool next to Torie. “All I’m prepared to say is that your sister and I slept together, and, since I compromised her, I intend to marry her.” Torie dropped her forehead and banged it three times against the countertop. “You are such a geek.” “Doesn’t sound like she’s too enthusiastic about it,” Kenny said.

Susan Cheever

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

Sting

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ...