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Quotes About Coffee

Mia moglie ha l'abitudine di raccontarmi i suoi sogni quando si sveglia. Io le porto il caffè e un bicchiere di succo di frutta e mi siedo accanto al letto mentre lei si sveglia e si scosta i capelli dalla faccia. Ha la solita espressione di quando ci si sveglia, ma anche lo sguardo di chi torna da qualche parte.
~ Raymond Carver
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
~ Raymond Chandler
I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.
~ Raymond Chandler
I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee.
~ Raymond Chandler
Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
~ Raymond Chandler
I went out to the kitchen to make coffee—yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men. It
~ Raymond Chandler
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. I went back to my desk, dropped the bottle of whiskey back into the drawer, shut the drawer and sat down again.
~ Raymond Chandler
coffee was overtrained and the sandwich was as full of rich flavor as a piece torn off an old shirt.
~ Raymond Chandler
He says you make good coffee and you get up kind of late in the mornings and are apt to run to a very bright line of chatter and that we should believe anything you say, provided we can check it by five independent witnesses.
~ Raymond Chandler
On the table spread out beside a coffee cup was a copy of El Diario, a Spanish language newspaper, also a saucer with cigarette stubs, a dirty plate, a tiny radio which emitted music. The music stopped and a man began to rattle off a commercial in Spanish. I turned it off. The silence fell like a bag of feathers.
~ Raymond Chandler
I went out to the kitchen to make coffee – yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life-blood of tired men.
~ Raymond Chandler
You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.
~ Rebecca Wells
Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.
~ Rebecca Wells
Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home
~ Richard Brautigan
But he found the routine of admin, diary-keeping, mail, billings—even the banalities of maintaining the coffee machine and water cooler—gave him quiet satisfaction. In part, no doubt, because he often arrived from Henry Road in a state unfit for much more than low-level administration.
~ Julian Barnes
Even amidst the worst panic, there are still scattered moments like this, when time flows leisurely by. Even when trying to finish a story by an impending deadline, Asakawa would sometimes find himself aimlessly watching coffee drop from the spout of the coffee maker, and later he'd reflect on how elegantly he'd wasted precious time.
~ K?ji Suzuki
Mi viene in mente che non riesco a ricordare nessun preciso particolare del Suo viso. Vedo ancora soltanto come Lei si allontanò poi tra i tavolini del caffè, la Sua figura, il Suo abito.
~ Kafka Franz
You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.
~ Kate Atkinson
There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.
~ Alice Foote MacDougall
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
~ Ian Anderson
Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.
~ Lewis Black
I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.
~ Katie Holmes
If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.
~ Shelley Long
Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.
~ Jeremy Clarkson