Tea Quotes - Page 27

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  Gary Oldman

  Morning, Sunday, Eggs

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

  David Oyelowo

  Feet, Roles, Crafts

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• The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

  Sarah Palin

  Smart, Party, Would Be

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• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Government, Doe

  "The First Tea Party President?". Interview with Erick Erickson, townhall.com. January 02, 2015.

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• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Wave, Tea Party

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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Broken, Unhappy

  "Paul thumps Grayson; Conway edges Mongiardo" by Jack Brammer, www.kentucky.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

  Guy Pearce

  Stuff, Cups, Comic

  "Guy Pearce on Batman, Being Offered Daredevil, and Avoiding Terrible Scripts". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. February 25, 2011.

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• You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

  Karl Pilkington

  Stuff, Cups, Newspapers

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2012.

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• It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

  Ezra Pound

  Marriage, Art, Together

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• You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Colin Powell

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Dad, Home

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• Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

  Condoleezza Rice

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Hands, August

  "'Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster'". Interview with Hans Hoyng, Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Massachusetts

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, Drinking, Coffee

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• If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

  Clara Schumann

  Ice, Rooms, Cold

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

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

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• If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, School, Editors

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Party, India

  "Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 6, 2005.

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• Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.

  Julia Quinn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Names

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• Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

  Jasper Fforde

  Time, Firsts, Baths

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• Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

  C. S. Lewis

  Summer, Daughter, War

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Events, Bitter

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