Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Aldiss

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

Brenda Ueland

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

There is a risk that as investors wake up and smell the coffee, the market will suffer gradual selling pressures.

There is a psychological high that people experience when they drink coffee.

Charles Bukowski

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

Charles Bukowski

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

Sydney Smith

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Bertrand Russell

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Carl Sandburg

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Howard Schultz

The point of entry for the Starbucks experience has been much more a social experience (in China) rather than competition between coffee and tea,

We are pleased to extend the positive working relationship with Starbucks Coffee International.

Kids don't need to be hyped up on coffee and caffeine.

What you have to remember is that Starbucks is in the coffee business.

When they started out I said, 'No way can a coffee shop owner keep its margins up there.' But it's not true. The management team's done a fantastic job of running that company.

He wasn't concealing much. ... It was all out on the coffee table. It just kept going, and we kept finding more; it snowballed into this whole thing.

Joe Arpaio

We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year.

John Bolton

I am telling people loosen your ties, fire up the coffee pots, get ready for the weekend, ... We've got a lot of work to do.

But we need those types of people in town to work in the coffee shops. You start talking to the younger generation, and they're not happy. They can't live here. They're leaving.

Abraham Polonsky

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

Ann Landers

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Andrea Gibson

I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.

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.

Adam Rapp

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

Adam Gopnik

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Anna Kendrick

I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.

Anthony Hopkins

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

Anthony Hopkins

I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

Alice Sebold

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

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?