- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Coffee Quotes
Small rituals, one cup at a time.
Coffee shows up here less as the main event and more as the backdrop to something else - a golfer's pre-round routine, or a family for whom coffee and political debate always went together. Related: Cafe.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everyone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
- Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
- Always
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
- Every Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I drink at least a couple of espressos every day and love the flavor of coffee.
- Bottles
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
- Nov 07, 2020
On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020