Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

David Mamet

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director

Danica McKellar

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

Connie Britton

Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it.

Clement Freud

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...

Dan Rather

Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.

Dan Fogelberg

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

Elton John

Those guys open up and have a cup of coffee there now, and it's just brilliant.

You'll walk in and you'll see an atrium, a two-story atrium, ... You'll have piano bars, coffee bars, lounges.

We have a great product with our doughnuts and we want the public to know we also have a great selection of coffee and other beverages.

We have colleagues scattered from Miami to Dallas. They're working out of coffee shops on laptop computers.

W. S. Gilbert

We provide our customers with the sweet spot of coffee, where value meets quality.

Claudia Pechstein

We are not such good friends. We don't drink coffee together.

We haven't had anything to eat or drink but coffee since 5 a.m..

Those kind of frustrations typically don't sit well with a coffee drinker.

Ron Rubin

Our purpose is to get people to slow down their lives. Our message is about lifestyle, health, and well-being. Coffee is all about speeding up, and tea is about slowing down.

My wife had coffee with him and his wife on Saturday morning (but) it's the first I've known about it.

My wife was making coffee, and I was on the George Foreman grill making hamburgers when she noticed the smoke.

Long-term, that's a tough fix. Wal-Mart is always going to need to sell Coke. They are always going to need to sell Wrigley's. Will they always need to sell Sara Lee's coffee or tea? I don't know.

Alice Munro

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anna Chlumsky

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.

Annie Dillard

To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

D. H. Lawrence

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

Cristina Saralegui

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

Cristina Saralegui

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.

Douglas Adams

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

Constance Marie

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

Cory Doctorow

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

Clive Cussler

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

Donald Trump

I've never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee.

David Starkey

I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.