Teapots Quotes - Page 2

• Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

  Brigham Young

  Tea, Harm, Ifs

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

  Nick Hornby

  Chocolate, Ends, Scales

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Differences, News

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Eye, Balls, Stones

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mma, Two, White

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

  Richard Dawkins

  Orbit, China, There Is No God

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• I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, Water, Too Much

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 10, 2012.

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• One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Tolerance, Herbs

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• Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Order, Fiction

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

  Barbara Pym

  Thinking, Hands, Dramatic

  Barbara Pym (1978). “Excellent Women”, Dutton Adult

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• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  Frances Mayes

  Ideas, People, House

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• And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Tea, May, Littles

  "The History of Pendennis".

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• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Trying, Stories

  "I'm just a bloke talking crap". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Finding Yourself, Tea, Cups

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• Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if it's a talking teapot. I don't think of them as one-dimensional drawn characters running around. Maybe that's why, to me, there's really no difference in writing the two - animation versus live action.

  Linda Woolverton

  Running, Real, Writing

  "Linda Woolverton and the Making of Maleficent". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Pluto, Levels

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• I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glasses, Break, Staring

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Tea, Jugs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called "Kitten." It was about a boy named Liam, who I was just crazy about.

  Bonnie McKee

  Girl, Song, Crazy

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Atheism, Orbit

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• I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Jesus, Giving

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

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