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Quotes About Brew

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.
~ Thomas Ligotti
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
~ Lawrence Block
If Continental tea is like a faded yellow telegraph form, in these islands to the west of Ostend it has the dark, glimmering tones of Russian icons, before the milk gives it a color similar to the complexion of an overfed baby; on the Continent weak tea is served in fragile porcelain, here it is casually poured into thick earthenware cups from battered metal teapots, a heavenly brew to restore the traveler, dirt cheap too.
~ Heinrich Boll
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
~ Henry Rollins
It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
~ Erik Qualman
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
~ Carlene Carter
and sugar was added to the hot coffee
~ Dave Eggers
I will abandon my agonized soul to vice if instantly you don't send a medimnos of barley. From the flour I'll make a brew to drink as medicine against my sorrows.
~ Unknown
Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don't have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute. Remember a searing look of intimate eyes. Receive the inner fire.
~ Vera Nazarian
I went back into the kitchen and drank two cups of coffee black as the devil's reputation.
~ Unknown
The general drink was ale. Most households of any size made their own, every few days. The advantage of adding hops was that it produced a longer-lasting brew, but that was still in the future.
~ Unknown
what good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage?
~ Jim Butcher
Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?
~ Joanne Harris
She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.
~ Rachel Caine
Carpe coffeum
~ Dean Koontz
Anne.... was so pale and tragic at breakfast next morning that Marilla was alarmed and insisted on making her a cup of scorching ginger tea. Anne sipped it patiently, although she could not imagine what good ginger tea would do. Had it been some magic brew, potent to confer age and experience, Anne would have swallowed a quart of it without flinching.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus that was necessary, the warmth that we cannot generate ourselves.
~ Marcel Proust
Yes, it's true that Cranmer had the courage of a scholar. And Mary a warm heart. And Pole integrity. All good people by nature. Yet look at the Devil's brew they've broiled between them. No one can be everything.
~ Unknown
Beer is good food
~ Rita Rudner
Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!
~ Mike Gayle
This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning.
~ Old Vaudeville joke
You'll drink the other first.' Wondering why women all turned into his old nurse when there was an injury to tend, he drank the bitter brew in the other beaker, and was handed his spiced ale as if it was a reward,
~ Unknown
It was as if he were just playing, splashing and swishing like a child busy cooking up some ghastly brew of water, grass, and mud, which he then asserts to be soup.
~ Patrick Süskind
I'd head to the Taurus, the only bar in the Grove that's older than I am. It's a brew-and-burger place in a quiche-and-cappuccino world, and I like it there. I'd have a couple of drafts, shoot some blow darts on the patio, tell harmless lies to various women, all the time wondering just what the hell was going on.
~ Paul Levine