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Quotes About Coffee

Recalling the atmosphere of this period, Mark Pincus remarked, "There were about six people that I knew who were interested in doing anything in the consumer internet, and we all kind of went to the same two coffee shops.
~ Sebastian Mallaby
Damn, all I wanted was a drink of coffee and one little beignet. Coffee… Daimons… Coffee…Daimons. (Talon) I think in this case the Daimons better win. (Wulf) Yeah, but it's chicory coffee. (Talon) Talon wanting to be toasted by Acheron for failure to protect humans. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do you have any coffee? (Talon) Ew! No, that stuff will kill you. I have herbal teas, though. (Sunshine) Herbal teas? That's mulch, not a beverage. (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Looks like I missed a party. Good. I wasn't really in the mood to off demons this evening. Haven't had my coffee yet. (Jared) You drink coffee? (Stryker) No, but it was my pathetic attempt at humor. (Jared)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why did you tell me about Babette?! (Gabrielle) Leash her until I have coffee or I may have to kill her. (Rae)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
~ Shirley Henderson
at one of these tables sat a young man.
~ John Escott
With my last nickel I went there for a cup of coffee.
~ John Fante
Just time for a mug of coffee in the meanwhile." Crowley was already beginning to work on a third arrow. "Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.
~ John Flanagan
If a person ever wanted to capture you three," she said, "he'd just have to bait the trap with a pot of coffee." Will nodded. "And we'd go gladly," he agreed.
~ John Flanagan
Halt waved farewell, tilting his chair onto its back legs as he drained his coffee. Will frowned at him. 'When I was your apprentice, you used to tell me not to do that. Said it'd loosen the chair legs.' 'And so it will,' Halt said, smiling contentedly. 'But it's your chair now, so why should I care?
~ John Flanagan
Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.
~ John Flanagan
Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.' 'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoordde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan ook een schoon geweten.' Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er ooit een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoon geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd.
~ John Flanagan
The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
~ John Grisham
Sloane los vio desaparecer bajo la superficie negra del agua. Y esperó. Una hora como mínimo. Nada. Los buceadores se tomaron un descanso. Vio que bebían café y hablaban con los demás policías. Después volvieron a equiparse y se sumergieron de nuevo en el río. Otra hora. Nada.
~ John Katzenbach
Note that as the cost of beans goes up, the cost of your cup might actually go down, if your favorite café switches from the more expensive, subtler arabica beans to the cheaper, stronger robusta variety. This happened in lots of places during the great coffee-bean price spike of 2010–11, so if you started noticing a few years ago that your morning espresso was making you gibber, that's probably the reason.
~ John Lanchester
The boy who convinced you to go to Hungary, he must be very handsome," Svetlana's aunt Bojana told me. "You can find an excellent coffee in Budapest. I see that you are looking at my tea tray. Do you like it? It's quite a good tray. I will make it a gift to you. But not now—only when you get married.
~ Elif Batuman
Jane cupped her coffee in both hands and blew across the steam so it curled from her lips like a musing dragon's breath.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The coffee's good, dark, redolent. The surface is clotted with broken rainbows. I raise it to my mouth, pause breathing in the steam. Just the smell of it is energy.
~ Elizabeth Bear
they had joked about that—how the girl had no idea, as she plunked down their mugs of coffee, that her own arm would someday be sprinkled with age spots, or that cups of coffee had to be planned since blood pressure medicine made you widdle so much, that life picked up speed, and then most of it was gone—made you breathless, really.
~ Elizabeth Strout
There is something exquisite about the combination of coffee's aroma and novel. It satiates mind, body and soul all at once.
~ Ashima
What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him?
~ B.J. Daniels
I drink bullet coffee, and I make it myself because I hate coffee. I get a shot of raw coffee, mix it with butter from grass-fed cows and coconut milk. It's amazing!
~ Huda Kattan
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