Tea Quotes - Page 19

• I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Paper, Panic, Cups

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that again, is another nice thing about being able to do commercials is, you can get out of the house and chase high speed cars around for a few days and then by the time you go back, you're kind of re-infused to write.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Jobs, Nice, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

  Keith Olbermann

  Party, Heart, Reality

  "Keith Olbermann Returns With Special Comment: GOP Self-Destruction, Driving ‘Political Toyota’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Reading, Serious Person, Practice

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• I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Beer, Goggles

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• I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

  John von Neumann

  Numbers, People, The End Of The Day

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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, Mug, Claret

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• You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio, and he shakes my hand, gives me a hug, and slaps me on the arse? That's genuinely the first time Tom Sturridge met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Literally, I'd hadn't seen him or exchanged words with him before. Richard just called me on set and said, 'Take him a cup of tea.' So that's what I did. And the smile of delight as he slaps me on the arse is purely mine.

  Tom Sturridge

  Hands, Giving, Pirate

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• [Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

  Paul Begala

  Country, Party, Weasels

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• It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Wall, Party, Cutting

  "Economic Malpractice and the Millennials". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 10, 2012.

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• The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.

  John Keats

  Silly, Men, Sea

  Letter to James Hessey, October 9, 1818.

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• Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Mean, People

  P.J. O'Rourke (2014). “The C.E.O. of the Sofa”, p.83, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out. Everyone rushed after it, shouting "Stop! Stop! Why did you do that?" "Becuase I am a panda," said the panda. "That's what pandas do. If you don't believe me, look in the dictionary." So they looked in the dictionary and sure enough they found Panda: Racoon-like animal of Asia. Eats shoots and leaves.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

  Nhat Hanh

  Enjoy, Awake

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• You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fall, Past, Giving

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• I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.

  Lore Sjoberg

  Party, People, Political

  "Alt Text: Join the Inactivist Party and Make Your Indifference Heard" by Lore Sjoberg, www.wired.com. May 27, 2011.

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

  Tom Felton

  Lovely, Example, Potters

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• The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

  Ben Howard

  Guitar, Cups, Cigarette

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.

  Billy Campbell

  Book, Joy, Way

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or televisions. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even that great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Reading, Tea Leaves

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• When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.

  Richard Lederer

  Coffee, Airplane, Milk

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• I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

  Albert Einstein

  Crime, Responsible, Murderer

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• People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, People, Dollars

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• Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

  Bob Hope

  Drinking, Kissing, Enough

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