Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lewis Black

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

Josephine Baker

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

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.

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.

Chuck Noll

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Chuck Pagano

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

Alfred de Vigny

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Amy Smart

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Amy Sedaris

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

Amin Maalouf

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amory Lovins

If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

Alphonse Karr

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Anthony Burgess

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

Keith Nicholls

If he can get an acquittal before the primary, he might still be strong.

Wade Henderson

If his view had prevailed, our country's voting rights revolution might never have happened,

James Farrior

If he would have stayed in the game, it might have been a long day for us. We just didn't play up to our level.

Henry Hyde

If he verifies these charges, impeachment might very well be an option,

J. Michael Straczynski

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. K. Rowling

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

J. K. Rowling

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

J. K. Rowling

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

Chris Stapleton

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.