COFFEE QUOTES III
quotations about coffee
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdome for Cooling the Flames
The next time you walk by a coffee shop, peer inside. Take in the variety of people in line or seated. Men and women in business attire. Parents with strollers. College students studying. High school kids joking. Couples deep in conversation. Retired folks reading newspapers and talking politics. And, of course, scores of people sitting in front of laptops searching, downloading, listening, reading and writing books, blogs, business plans, résumés, letters, e-mails, instant messages, texts ... whatever their hearts desire. Consider how many of those people furiously clicking away on keyboards and scribbling ideas on napkins might be working to create the next Google, Alibaba, or Facebook, or composing a novel or a piece of music. Maybe they're falling in love with someone sitting next to them. Or making a friend.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I used to
Make love.
Now I
Make coffee.
CHOCOLATE WATERS
"I Used To"
I'm just waiting to see if my coffee chooses to use its powers for good or evil today ...
ANONYMOUS
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
Coffee reached Western Europe in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, brought by mariners who had acquired a taste for it in the Near East. It was first established at seaports, but spread rapidly to major cities inland. Considered a dangerous stimulant, it was closely monitored by municipal and royal authorities who licensed and taxed its use. They also worried about its association with those citizens who made the new coffee houses into social and political gathering places. Already in 1675, Charles II of England tried to close down the coffee houses as places of sedition (popular pressure made him desist, however), and for the next two centuries they were frequently subjected to government surveillance and suppression.
ROBERT L. HERBERT
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
ALFRED RENYI
attributed, My Brain Is Open
Coffee offers connoisseurship at a good price, without pretension.
KENNETH DAVIDS
Coffee: A Guide to Buying
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.
ORHAN PAMUK
My Name is Red
While it is true that even bad coffee is better than none, the difference between good and bad is the same as between one cent and ten thousand.
ROSEANE M. SANTOS & DARCY R. LIMA
An Unashamed Defense of Coffee
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS
The coffee tasted bitter in spite of the cream and sugar, but it was something else to do with my hands.
JOSEPHINE GARNER
A Banner of Love
Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
ANONYMOUS
Coffee is the world's most valuable trading commodity after oil.
ANTONY WILD
Coffee: A Dark History
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover's Soul
Sometimes I look forward to going to bed at night because I know that when I wake up, I get coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Come here you big, beautiful cup of coffee and lie to me about how much we're going to get done today.
ANONYMOUS
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Java: How to Program
It has been acclaimed "the most grateful lubricant known to the human machine," and "the most delightful taste in all nature."
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
foreword, All About Coffee