Coffee Quotes: Brewing Inspiration and Wisdom (Page 2)

"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions"

"The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London"

"Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107"

Martha Beck, Author

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling"

Dave Barry, Author

"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption"

Robert Nelson, Politician

"It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park"

Jake Gyllenhaal, Actor

"When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run"

Katarina Witt, Athlete

"I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee"

Bella Abzug, Lawyer

"I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends"

Phil Crane, Politician

"When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff"

Aaron Carter, Musician

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses"

Jason Behr, Actor

"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that"

Steve Earle, Musician

"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea"

Gary Snyder, Poet

"I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back"

Jim Gilmore

"In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books"

Paula Danziger, Author

"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't"

Martha Quinn, Celebrity

"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

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

Howard Schultz, Businessman

"They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again"

Ron Wood, Musician

"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee"

Howard Schultz, Businessman

"I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think"

Kevin Garnett, Athlete

"When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers"

George Porter, Scientist

"I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing"

Douglas Wilson, Entertainer

"I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup"

Eddie Izzard, Comedian

"Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep"

Fran Drescher, Actress

"I like my coffee light"

Elizabeth Banks, Actress

"I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work"

Dick York, Actor

"It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard"

Anne Spencer, Poet

"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work"

Ben Gazzara, Actor

"I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family"

Rick Perry, Politician

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