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Quotes About Coffee

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.
~ Roman Payne
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.
~ Roman Payne
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
~ Ronald Reagan
He began his morning at six a.m. with a cup of coffee and a paperback.
~ Louise Erdrich
Who but an NDN would know that some days truth is a ghost who shouts in the voice of no one in particular and other days it is a secret nostalgia poured into the coffee cups of the living?
~ Louise Erdrich
She was not a shy person, Georgie, but chatting to friendly baristas in cafés when she ventured out for a coffee or sandwich had so far been the extent of her socializing here in
~ Lucy Diamond
This folio never leaves this room, Natalie said, turning from the bureau with a leather folder in her arms. But you have plenty of time. Enjoy it, and when you're done set it back and join us for coffee. I couldn't possibly—it's so old— One of the woman's brow ridges quirked. And only young things need to be touched?
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?
~ Maira Kalman
but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.
~ Malcolm Cowley
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
~ Malcolm X
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
~ Ed O'Neill
Há boas e más novas no café. A má, é que o tempo corre. A boa, é que o tempo cura.
~ Amos Oz
Finish your coffee," I told her yesterday. "Don't throw your blessings away." "Don't be so old-fashioned, Ma," she told me, finishing her coffee down the sink. "I'm my own person." And I think, How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?
~ Amy Tan
The skins matched all the tones of chocolate, coffee and wood. There were many white suits and dresses, and many of those flowered dresses which in the realm of printed dresses stand in the same relation as the old paintings of flowers and fruit done by maiden aunts to a Matisse, or a Braque.
~ Anais Nin
En el café advierto cenizas bajo la piel de su rostro. Desintegración. Siento una terrible ansiedad. Siento ganas de abrazarla. Noto cómo retrocede hacia la muerte y yo estoy dispuesta a acoger la muerte para seguirla, para abrazarla. Se muere ante mis ojos. Su belleza provocadora y sombría se apaga. Su extraña, masculina fuerza.
~ Anais Nin
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
~ Ana?Nin
Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails, and he needed to shout them at her now as she poured her coffee in the kitchen, its smell always such a comfort to him, but not then; that morning it was like the sweet fragrance of lilacs just before you see the corpse upon which they lie.
~ Andre Dubus III
Un cafè non s'arrefuta mai.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Es la ausencia de felicidad interior y paz en el corazón y la mente la que hace que una persona se sienta estresada y tome medicamentos, coma demasiadas proteínas y alimentos en general, abuse del alcohol y del tabaco, beba cantidades excesivas de café, se vuelva adicto al trabajo o esté descontento con su trabajo o consigo mismo.
~ Andreas Moritz
if you're using an exponential algorithm O(2n), you might want to make a cup of coffee—your routine should finish in about 10263 years. Let us know how the universe ends.
~ Andrew Hunt
Estimates given at the coffee machine will (like the coffee) come back to haunt you.
~ Andrew Hunt
the coffeemaker in his hotel room is a hungry little mollusk, snapping open its jaws to devour pods and subsequently secreting coffee into a mug.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one neon sign lit in the window of a narrow storefront. COFFEE AND PIE, it read. Two bikes were parked just outside. On the boardwalk, in the thrown light of the neon sign, his head dipped down as I pulled my fingers through his hair. The night still in progress, with daylight hours away.
~ Sarah Dessen