Tea Quotes - Page 11

• It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

  Sam Levenson

  Wisdom, Sweet, Sugar

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

  Trevor Baylis

  Fall, Tired, Night

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• No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

  Allison Pearson

  Girly, Dog, Men

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• Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Sweet, Convince Us, Trying

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

  Richard Simmons

  Drinking, Special, Bed

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• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

  Anne Carson

  Pages, Attractive, Stains

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• I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

  Bernard Berenson

  Wine, Way

  Bernard Berenson, Hanna Kiel (1974). “Looking at pictures with Bernard Berenson”

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• It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.

  Burial

  Real, Home, Dark

  "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Years, Want

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• Leave your front door and your back door open.
  Allow your thoughts to come and go.
  Just don't serve them tea.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Doors, Comes And Goes, Fronts

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• To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Lonely, Simple, Too Much

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• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Boston

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Together, Sugar, Envelopes

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• We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Needs, Helping

  "Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

  Wim Wenders

  Sex, Violin, Cups

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

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• You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

  Peter Kay

  Biscuits, Dip, Break

  "Mum Wants A Bungalow". Stand-up comedy tour by Peter Kay, 2003.

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• I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Shoes, White, Guy

  Celia Rivenbark (2006). “Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments”, p.81, Macmillan

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• No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Makeup, Men

  "Eddie Izzard: Sexie". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Morning, Lunch

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.

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• No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.89, Penguin

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• To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

  Tom Stoppard

  Drama, Focus, Pace

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Moving, Party

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• Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.

  Patrick Howley

  Party, Political, Secret

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• Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tea Leaves, Trying, Looks

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