Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Taylor

Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.

Elizabeth Hurley

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.

Elizabeth Hurley

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If coffee didn't exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

Arthur Guiterman

First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless, And coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy was hatless, The proper diet fatless. New motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religion--godless.

Armistead Maupin

Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” Michael grinned at Jon. “My roommate. Brace yourself.” Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. “Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

Jonathan Swift

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Lord Byron

Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious

Olivia Culpo

I have to have coffee in the morning.

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.

A. J. Jacobs

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

Agatha Christie

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Where else do you have a thousand-dollar item sitting on a table in a coffee shop?

People look forward to having that time with each other and are showing up earlier and earlier each week. They want to be a part of having real conversations. This Sunday I made two coffee dates with people I hardly know.

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.

Mark Billingham

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

I was working right there 30 seconds earlier. I went inside to get some coffee. It sounded like a Mack truck hit the house.

Scott Anderson

Our little coffee shop is humming on Sunday mornings. It's a huge hit.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.