Tea Quotes - Page 38

• I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

  Andy Weir

  Water, Hot, Add

  Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.318, Broadway Books

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• So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

  Kristi Noem

  Party, Home, Members

  "Interview with Representative Krisi Noem". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Want, Hell, Well Known

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

  Anthony Lane

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

  Penn Jillette

  War, Party, Self

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Four, Return

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Finals, Looks

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• Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Heart, Drink, Ritual

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• I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

  Amy Sedaris

  Holiday, Turkeys, Fake

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• The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

  David Brooks

  Party, Past, Class

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• Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

  Howie Carr

  Running, Morning, Party

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• Essentially, the Tea Party are the Hell's Angels, but with sun visors instead of switch blades. They push macaroni instead of meth. Mess with the Tea Party and they'll put your dog in an American flag sweater on a hot day.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Party, Angel

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Looks, Band, Misery

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Way To Live

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• Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

  Anne Fine

  Drinking, Holiday, Kitchen

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• England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Toss

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Knitting, Spinning

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• It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, Looks, Tea Party

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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Spiritual, Heart, Luxury

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  May, Outsiders, Cups

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Sweet, Queens, Ivory

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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