COFFEE QUOTES III
quotations about coffee
You can't get a cup of coffee pregnant by putting cream in it.
JAMES BUFFINGTON
The Ultimate Book of Blonde, Brunette, and Redhead Jokes
Coffee reached Western Europe in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, brought by mariners who had acquired a taste for it in the Near East. It was first established at seaports, but spread rapidly to major cities inland. Considered a dangerous stimulant, it was closely monitored by municipal and royal authorities who licensed and taxed its use. They also worried about its association with those citizens who made the new coffee houses into social and political gathering places. Already in 1675, Charles II of England tried to close down the coffee houses as places of sedition (popular pressure made him desist, however), and for the next two centuries they were frequently subjected to government surveillance and suppression.
ROBERT L. HERBERT
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Eyes and Ears
Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
ANONYMOUS
I'm just waiting to see if my coffee chooses to use its powers for good or evil today ...
ANONYMOUS
She wasn't certain what the future held, but coffee would be involved if she had any say in the matter.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Moving Pictures
It has been acclaimed "the most grateful lubricant known to the human machine," and "the most delightful taste in all nature."
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
foreword, All About Coffee
People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more.
KEVIN SINNOTT
The Art and Craft of Coffee
The coffee, when he tried it, was strong almost to the point of being unbearable, but not quite. In short, it was divine.
K.A. BEFORD
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
A man full of bad coffee is apt to commit any crime. Some of them even write letters to the papers.
S. JAY KAUFMAN
The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, September 1921
While it is true that even bad coffee is better than none, the difference between good and bad is the same as between one cent and ten thousand.
ROSEANE M. SANTOS & DARCY R. LIMA
An Unashamed Defense of Coffee
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
The next time you walk by a coffee shop, peer inside. Take in the variety of people in line or seated. Men and women in business attire. Parents with strollers. College students studying. High school kids joking. Couples deep in conversation. Retired folks reading newspapers and talking politics. And, of course, scores of people sitting in front of laptops searching, downloading, listening, reading and writing books, blogs, business plans, résumés, letters, e-mails, instant messages, texts ... whatever their hearts desire. Consider how many of those people furiously clicking away on keyboards and scribbling ideas on napkins might be working to create the next Google, Alibaba, or Facebook, or composing a novel or a piece of music. Maybe they're falling in love with someone sitting next to them. Or making a friend.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Roasted coffee contains over eight hundred separate flavour and aroma components, most of which form in the crucible of the roaster. This strange alchemy accounts in part for the hold that coffee exerts over our imagination.
ANTONY WILD
Coffee: A Dark History
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
ALFRED RENYI
attributed, My Brain Is Open
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdome for Cooling the Flames
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Glory Road
People love coffee because of its two-fold effect--the pleasurable sensation and the increased efficiency it produces.
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
All About Coffee