COFFEE QUOTES V
quotations about coffee
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
attributed, He Who Laughs, Lasts
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
ANONYMOUS
Coffee is a breast that nourishes men deeply. A morning born of a bitter taste. The milk of manhood.
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Memory for Forgetfulness
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
UMBERTO ECO
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz.
BOB PHILLIPS
A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Coffee is a language in itself.
JACKIE CHAN
"Jackie Chan Wants to Be Role Model", Washington Post, August 4, 2006
Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture -- it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.
MARK PENDERGRAST
Uncommon Grounds
I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Cerulean Sins
You should know that before 10am, no matter what the question is, my answer is always coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
EDWARD ABBEY
attributed, Forbes, 2008
If the coffee is good everything is good.
FRANCIS BEATTY THURBER
A Brief History of Coffee
I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.
KEVIN SINNOTT
The Art and Craft of Coffee
You can always tell who the boss is: he's the one who watches the clock during the coffee break.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
All men should make coffee for their women. It says it right in the Bible ... "HEBREW".
ANONYMOUS
If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.
DAVID LETTERMAN
"Letterman Lets His Guard Down", Esquire, December 1994
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Treatise on Modern Stimulants
The Communist slogan "Workers, arise!" has come to mean in capitalist countries that it's time for the coffee break.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Thud!