COFFEE QUOTES IV
quotations about coffee
Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
ANONYMOUS
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
Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, October 2, 2009
People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more.
KEVIN SINNOTT
The Art and Craft of Coffee
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
It has been acclaimed "the most grateful lubricant known to the human machine," and "the most delightful taste in all nature."
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
foreword, All About Coffee
Come here you big, beautiful cup of coffee and lie to me about how much we're going to get done today.
ANONYMOUS
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Eyes and Ears
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
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Glory Road
Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it.
CAPTAIN JANEWAY
"Hunters,", Star Trek: Voyager
To many people, decaffeinated coffee is like a car without an engine--it might look good on the surface, but it won't get you where you want to go.
SUSAN GILBERT
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting And Running A Coffeebar
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
ALBERT CAMUS
attributed, The Paradox of Choice
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
The coffee tasted bitter in spite of the cream and sugar, but it was something else to do with my hands.
JOSEPHINE GARNER
A Banner of Love
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover's Soul
When my coffee is gone, so is my motivation.
JAROD KINTZ
Seriously Delirious
Roasted coffee contains over eight hundred separate flavour and aroma components, most of which form in the crucible of the roaster. This strange alchemy accounts in part for the hold that coffee exerts over our imagination.
ANTONY WILD
Coffee: A Dark History
People love coffee because of its two-fold effect--the pleasurable sensation and the increased efficiency it produces.
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
All About Coffee
I used to
Make love.
Now I
Make coffee.
CHOCOLATE WATERS
"I Used To"