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Quotes About Coffee

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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
You can never have too much coffee", I said He turned and smiled at me. "You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD'ed on your level of caffeine.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I called room service wearing nothing but a towel. I'd almost forgotten. I ordered a pot of coffee, sugar, and cream. They asked if I wanted decaf. I said no thank you. Pushy. Like waiters asking if I wanted a diet Coke when I didn't ask for it. They never ask men, even portly men, if they want diet Cokes. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Eating plain toast will detonate her. I'll have some honey. When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.
~ Lawrence Block
Caricatures, a coffee house on Macdougal with a batch of caricatures in the window, along with a signed note from Maxwell Bodenheim, the archetypical Village bohemian who'd been murdered a few years earlier.
~ Lawrence Block
Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.
~ Lawrence Block
I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
~ Earl Wilson
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
~ George Porter
Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.
~ J.D. Robb, Rapture in Death
I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Once I stood in line behind a young woman ordering coffee who remarked to her friend that she didn't yet have a set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, beliefs that wouldn't collapse under one's full weight, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief. As for me, I have learned what I can do and what I can't. I know my limits. That's all I have to go on, but it's better than nothing.
~ Abigail Thomas
The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
~ Adam Thirlwell
Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves," Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was but maybe he was right. We drove back to the station. I poured myself a Johnnie Walker which was the general libation used to liven up the office tea. Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee.
~ Adrian McKinty
people sit and sip coffee and talk easily of their lives.
~ Alan Lightman
masculine blend of brown and
~ Diane Mott Davidson
Darling, my friend has just been mugged and she needs better coffee than this. Was it made from ancient beans? Do us all a favor and make a fresh pot.
~ Diane Mott Davidson
Der Fuß war beerdigt, ich war groggy und mein Kaffee war kalt.
~ Donald Antrim
Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.
~ Justina Chen
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
~ Bertrand Russell