COFFEE QUOTES III
quotations about coffee
Coffee reached Western Europe in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, brought by mariners who had acquired a taste for it in the Near East. It was first established at seaports, but spread rapidly to major cities inland. Considered a dangerous stimulant, it was closely monitored by municipal and royal authorities who licensed and taxed its use. They also worried about its association with those citizens who made the new coffee houses into social and political gathering places. Already in 1675, Charles II of England tried to close down the coffee houses as places of sedition (popular pressure made him desist, however), and for the next two centuries they were frequently subjected to government surveillance and suppression.
ROBERT L. HERBERT
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
If you are under the age of 30, you may not remember when coffee was only scooped out of a can, dripped from a vending machine or from a lukewarm stainless steel pot in an office break room, and served in a Styrofoam cup or a diner mug. Or when, at least in the United States, coffee was mostly inhaled for its caffeine jolt rather than savored for its exotic flavors, and the only customizations were cream and sugar.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
You can't get a cup of coffee pregnant by putting cream in it.
JAMES BUFFINGTON
The Ultimate Book of Blonde, Brunette, and Redhead Jokes
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Java: How to Program
The coffee, when he tried it, was strong almost to the point of being unbearable, but not quite. In short, it was divine.
K.A. BEFORD
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
I don't need to drink coffee to be awesome. I'm already awesome. But it's more fun when I'm awesome and awake.
ANONYMOUS
It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
GABRIEL BA
Daytripper
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold,
it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility.
Where coffee is served, there is
grace and splendor and friendship and happiness.
All cares vanish as the coffee cup is raised to the lips.
SHEIKH ABD-AL-KADIR
In Praise of Coffee
Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
ANONYMOUS
She wasn't certain what the future held, but coffee would be involved if she had any say in the matter.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Moving Pictures
The aroma of coffee is a return to and a bringing back of first things because it is the offspring of the primordial. It's a journey, begun thousands of years ago, that still goes on.
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Memory for Forgetfulness
I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state.
JANE ROBERTS
The Early Sessions
The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.
ORHAN PAMUK
My Name is Red
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
JOHN VAN DRUTEN
The Voice of the Turtle
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Glory Road
I used to
Make love.
Now I
Make coffee.
CHOCOLATE WATERS
"I Used To"
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
The next time you walk by a coffee shop, peer inside. Take in the variety of people in line or seated. Men and women in business attire. Parents with strollers. College students studying. High school kids joking. Couples deep in conversation. Retired folks reading newspapers and talking politics. And, of course, scores of people sitting in front of laptops searching, downloading, listening, reading and writing books, blogs, business plans, résumés, letters, e-mails, instant messages, texts ... whatever their hearts desire. Consider how many of those people furiously clicking away on keyboards and scribbling ideas on napkins might be working to create the next Google, Alibaba, or Facebook, or composing a novel or a piece of music. Maybe they're falling in love with someone sitting next to them. Or making a friend.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul