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Quotes About Coffee

What has he in his hand there? cried Starbuck, pointing to something wavingly held by the German. Impossible!—a lamp-feeder! Not that, said Stubb, no, no, it's a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he's coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big tin can there alongside of him?—that's his boiling water. Oh! he's all right, is the Yarman. Go along with you, cried Flask, it's a lamp-feeder and an oil-can. He's out of oil, and has come a-begging.
~ Herman Melville
What has he in his hand there? cried Starbuck, pointing to something wavingly held by the German. Impossible!—a lamp-feeder! Not that, said Stubb, no, no, it's a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he's coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big tin can there alongside of him?—that's his boiling water. Oh! he's all right, is the Yarman.
~ Herman Melville
Nous n'aborderons pas ici le thème de toutes les singularités de Queequeg, nous passerons sous silence sa manière de s'abstenir de café et
~ Herman Melville
He walked through the white corridors, past the notice-boards with their offers of small rooms and old cars, past the coffee bar where people sat at tables, past a hole in the white floor where an old chair stood sentry over an opened conduit in which a torch shone and a man crawled, and as he left he looked at his watch:
~ Iain Banks
I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.
~ Ian Fleming
Breakfast was Bond's favourite meal of the day. When he was stationed in London it was always the same. It consisted of very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxford Street, brewed in an American Chemex, of which he drank two large cups, black and without sugar.
~ Ian Fleming
You sure you don't want me to stay? I'll make you coffee and ask you about your day.
~ Ilona Andrews
Only two kinds of people drink their coffee black: cops and serial killers.
~ Ilona Andrews
Dali blinked at me. Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left. I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. What's up with the labels? Dali shrugged. You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'd give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.
~ Ilona Andrews
Please tell me there is coffee. Aunt B grimaced. They're already crazy. If I let them have coffee, they'd be bouncing off the walls. We have herbal tea, ... I needed to find Julie, find her mom, convince a sociopath to donate some blood for the good of mankind, and deal with a tentacled atrocity swaddled in cloth and his rabid mermaids. I needed coffee.
~ Ilona Andrews
My son taught me a few tricks about card games and Rishona spent time painting with me. She would also make us dalgona coffee at times. These small joys of family life have made me a very happy person.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.
~ Tom Brady
What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.
~ Morgan Fairchild
As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.
~ Michael Finkel
I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I'll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I'm done with the call.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee.
~ AJ Lee
Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.
~ Phyllis Diller
Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.
~ Jay Leno
When she didn't continue, he shrugged. "Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy
~ J.R. Ward
If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.
~ Rie Rasmussen
Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.
~ Daniel Handler
You sure you don't want me to stay? I'll make you coffee and ask you about your day.
~ Ilona Andrews
We are artists. We are writers—slightly neurotic and probably addicted to coffee, late nights, sunsets, laughter, tears, and heartache. Creativity is our drug. We lose ourselves in the smell of old books. We're bewildered by how we can live in a world this full of glory and grief and not be awestruck every moment. And we write stories to help wake people up before they fall asleep for good.
~ Steven James