#coffee

I never got into coffee. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#got #i #into #never

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. ↗

— Mae West

#coffee #cup #double #double meaning #i

The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life. For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#coffee #exhaustion #nervous-energy #relaxation #work

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. ↗

— Harper Lee

#dream #golf #home #interrupting #know

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#bad habits #coffee #enthusiast #habits #i

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#black #black coffee #carrots #coffee #diet

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!' ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#big deal #coffee #come #day #deal

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. ↗

— George Porter

#coffee #given #happiness #honour #indeed