Caffeine Quotes - Page 2

• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Success, Coffee

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 51 (1917)

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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice

  Wallace Stevens

  Coffee, Sacrifice, Orange

  Harmonium (1923) "Sunday Morning, I"

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• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Life Is, Drink

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1766). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.297

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• Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Coffee, Tea, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The Kickleburys on the rhine: By M. A. Titmarsh”, p.9

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• That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being The Best, Force

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Religious, Jesus

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• Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Skins, Body, Kidneys

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• I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

  Jim Carrey

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Coffee

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• I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Cups, Cappuccino

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• The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Fire, Cooking

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Coffee, Smell, Bags

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

  Earl Wilson

  Coffee, Communication, Office

  "Fostering global discourse: it's time to embrace distance learning" by Kit Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

  Isak Dinesen

  Coffee, Soul, Body

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.245, Vintage

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• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Giving, Surprise

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Drink, Quails

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

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• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

  Umberto Eco

  Coffee, Espresso, Temperature

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Espresso, France

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• The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

  Mark Helprin

  Coffee, Espresso, Soul

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• Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.

  Adam Levine

  Girl, Feelings, Empty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Josephine Baker

  Coffee, Together, Cream

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• I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

  Anna Kendrick

  Doe, Needs, Drink

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• I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Voice, Drink, Booze

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Espresso, Personality

  "Letterman Lets His Guard Down" by Bill Zehme, Esquire, December 1994.

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• Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Helping, Isolation, Certain

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