Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

Orhan Pamuk

The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

Lance Berkman

All I do, ... is eat. And drink coffee.

Joe Manganiello

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

Jo Nesbo

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

Ellen G. White

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.

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.

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.

Terry Pratchett

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Terry Pratchett

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

Lawrence Block

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

Peter Eisenman

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

Phil Crane

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

Phil Crosby

The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

Peter Cameron

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

James Altucher

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

Henry Rollins

Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

Henry Rollins

What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.

Morgan Fairchild

What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.

Joni Mitchell

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

Jonathan Stroud

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.