Mug Quotes

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Careers, May

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• On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?

  Paul Merton

  New York, Humorous, Central Park

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• People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

  Jane Krakowski

  People, Tape, Online

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• I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

  Jim Butcher

  Sorry, Book, Apology

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Poetry, Poetry Is

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Atheism, Groups

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• Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

  Denis Healey

  Glasses, Tea, Claret

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• I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
  marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
  I never know sadness, but only a madness
  that burns at the heart and the brain.
  I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
  angelic, demonic, divine.
  Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
  that brims with ambrosial wine.

  Jack Parsons

  Heart, Wine, Sadness

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• Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beer, Nannies, Pay

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• You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.

  Nalini Singh

  Football, Thinking, Ugly

  Nalini Singh (2006). “Slave to Sensation”, p.236, Penguin

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• They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Games, Salary

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• This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, we’ll progress to courting. When we’re old and silver-haired, perhaps we’ll finally get around to flirtation. We’ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. We’ll be the envy of couples half our age.

  Tessa Dare

  Couple, Eye, Envy

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• Something smashed to the ground. Jack looked at me, all the mugs forgotten. "I'm not going to let anyone kill you." He grinned. "If I don't get to, no one should.

  Kiersten White

  Forgotten, Should, Ifs

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• Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

  Markus Zusak

  Coffee, Have Faith, Coffee Mug

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.144, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

  Alice Munro

  Coffee, Book, Hands

  Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.421, Random House

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• Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

  Bill Watterson

  Book, Chocolate, Bed

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• You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Moving, Fall, Cutting

  Alan Sillitoe (2003). “New and collected stories”, Robson Books Limited

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• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hurt, Winning, Opportunity

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• The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Tea, Cups, Used

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.134, Xist Publishing

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• One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs

  David Hilbert

  Beer, Lines, Tables

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• It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

  Richard Gehman

  Morning, Coffee, Men

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• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  M. C. Gainey

  Cowboy, Past, Years

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

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• We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

  Paul Reiser

  Smile, Long, People

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

  Stan Lee

  Success, Coffee, Character

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• There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

  A. Alfred Taubman

  Beer, Roots, Challenges

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