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Quotes About Coffee

Did William Powell take Myrna Loy to a Dunkin' Donut shop?" "He didn't know enough," I said. I raised my coffee cup toward her.
~ Robert B. Parker
Susan made a large plate of ham sandwiches while we finished up our maps and we had them with coffee in front of the fire. "You make a good fire for a broad," I said to Susan. "It's easy," Susan said, "I rubbed two dry sexists together.
~ Robert B. Parker
people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.
~ Robert B. Parker
It was 5:30 in the morning. Healy and I were drinking coffee out of thick white mugs at the counter of a small diner on Route 20. I felt the way you feel when you've been up all night and drunk too much coffee. If I still smoked, I would have drunk too much coffee and smoked too many cigarettes and felt worse. It wasn't much in the way of consolation. But one makes do.
~ Robert B. Parker
POLLARD HAD NEVER been good in the morning. Every morning for as long as she could remember—months, maybe years—she woke feeling depleted, and dreading the pain of beginning her day. She drank two cups of black coffee just to give herself a pulse. But
~ Robert Crais
A taupe couch faced matching taupe chairs across a blocky coffee table. Matching end tables that were too large for the space bracketed the couch, and a generic mass-produced painting hung on the wall. The furnishings appeared new, but looked like furnishings found in a discount motel chain. Pike
~ Robert Crais
Ghazi al-Diri's life ended with the Korean's call. He was in the commissary when his phone buzzed, letting his coffee steep in a French press he brought from Saõ Paulo. Now, he slipped the phone into his pocket, and poured the coffee. Several of his men were near, eating burritos of eggs and beans they had made for themselves. Ghazi moved away from them to think. He was angry, but might yet survive if he remained calm. Maysan
~ Robert Crais
Yet, at the café tables in the morning, young mothers with designer sunglasses rock their babies in strollers with one hand and and sip morning coffee with the other. Normality is the most beautiful of all things, especially considering such a past.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Long. Not interesting. Coffee?" "No thanks. I'm trying to cut back." "I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop." "That's donuts. What do lawyers eat?" "Each other.
~ Robert Dugoni
Mama was making a fresh pot of coffee. She'd make it weak and complain that it tasted funny being ground up right there on the spot instead of coming out of a can all ready to brew.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.
~ Kim Harrison
I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
~ Kim Harrison
My office is trashed," he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. "Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.
~ Kim Harrison
I want an expresso. Black. But give me the domestic blend. That Turkish crap gives me the runs for a week. - Jenks
~ Kim Harrison
See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.
~ Kim Harrison
Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded.Coffee? Why not?
~ Kim Harrison
You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.
~ Kim Harrison
My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem.
~ Kim Harrison
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy witch here.
~ Kim Harrison
Witch!" a resonant voice echoed, and I tossed my hair aside, taking in the robed figure in the threshold. "Why, by Cormel's gonads, does my coffee taste like dandelions!
~ Kim Harrison
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy
~ Kim Harrison
Latte grande, double espresso, Italian blend. Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Whole milk. Put it in porcelain.
~ Kim Harrison
grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry?
~ Kim Harrison
Tall latte, double espresso, skim milk, light on the foam, with cinnamon and a shot of raspberry?
~ Kim Harrison