Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Wilson

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

Dorothy Day

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

Donny Osmond

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

Donald Miller

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Dean Norris

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

Andy Rooney

Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

Christopher Moore

She knew it should bother her more, being evil and all, but after she put on a little mascara and some lipstick and poured herself another cup of blood-laced coffee, she found that she was okay with it.

Andrew Bird

I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.

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.

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.

I was pretty depressed, ... But we had a couple cups of coffee and thought about it and got up the next day and life was normal again.

Anthony Quinn

See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

Alphonse Allais

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

Anthony Bourdain

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Eduardo Galeano

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Edward Abbey

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Linda Tripp

The only person I ever saw her with was Linda ... I'd see them having coffee once in a while.

Dave Penney

One of my co-workers said that cricket lovers were naturally anally retentive. I told him to shut up and to never use my tea mug for coffee again.

Share your story. Your pharmacist or your doctor is not going to know you drink 15 cups of coffee a day unless you tell them, or that you drink wine with dinner every night.

She's a total game changer. The thing that really sets her apart, the big reason that everybody watches her and why she has had so much success, is that viewers can imagine having a cup of coffee with her, of sitting on a playground and watching their kids on the jungle gym. She's not acting. She's not playing a role. She is what she is.