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Quotes About Cup

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
~ Rumi
Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
~ Lord Byron
The contrast between the strong, clean, straight lines of a cup run and the messy, tangled, overgrown paths of a life is plangent: I wish I could draw one of those big knock-out trophy diagrams to show how I'd ended up playing on the unfamiliar turf of a Hampstead psychiatrist's carpet.
~ Nick Hornby
She was all-out, delighted enthusiasm, like a stupid, bubbling stream, and the guy would just cup that in his hands for the hell of it, splash his face with it, and drop the leftovers back into the river.
~ Laura Florand
Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.
~ Charles Dickens
Baby doll, the only thing here that ain't overdue are the last notices on the bills, We are bailing out a rowboat with a dixie cup
~ Greg Hurwitz
When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
~ Roman Payne
How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress' health, I'll pledge it. Stay, stay, there's a spider in the cup! No, 'tis but a grape-stone; swallow it, fear nothing, poet. So, so; lift higher.
~ Thomas Middleton
Our objectives are everything - the Champions League, La Liga Santander and the cup.
~ Jordi Alba
A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping. And once you've got through the clown puke there's nothing but a fistful of quotidian sponge nestling in a depressing, soggy 'cup' that feels like a pair of paper knickers a fat man has been sitting in throughout a long, hot coach journey between two disappointing market towns.
~ Charlie Brooker
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
~ Saki (H.H. Munro), "Tea"
grape, knife, cup, wheat / are symbols in eternity, / and every concrete object / has abstract value, is timeless / in the dream parallel
~ H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Albany had declared that "All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings" (24.297–99).
~ James Shapiro
I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.
~ Aminatta Forna
The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned - but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.
~ Micah Richards
The FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world. Players are keen and willing to play in these games.
~ Edwin van der Sar
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?
~ Oscar Wilde
the white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup.
~ Pat Barker
other things." He filled her cup. "Jasmine," he said. "Tastes
~ Will Ferguson
We have now decided that the poisoned cup is most likely in front of you. But the poison is powder made from iocane and iocane comes only from Australia and Australia, as everyone knows, is peopled with criminals and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as I don't trust you, which means I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
~ William Goldman
Just these," Nina replied, holding up a fist full of balsa wood chopsticks. "That's okay," Walter said, tipping the box to his lips like a cup and slurping up the noodles.
~ Christa Faust
I am Nestor's delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.
~ Jared Diamond