Coffee Quotes
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
David Starkey
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I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water.
Harper Reed
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When I come home from training, my attention immediately has to focus on my school courses, which helps keep the stress level balanced. I mostly balance both by drinking a lot of coffee and making sure I time manage well, which doesn't happen all the time, especially during finals week.
Mirai Nagasu
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I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.
Judy Collins
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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
Richard LaGravenese
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Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.
Elizabeth Wein
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
Scott Westerfeld
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Dear Bea—Can’t make it today—sorry. Parent arriving lunch per. to ask why son got 35% on Midterm. Must answer him. How? Sylvia Dear Syl—Don’t try. There’s no communication; no one really listens. Every man is an island. Give him a container of coffee instead.
Bel Kaufman
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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.
Charles Bowden
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
Michael Caine
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I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
Eric Weiner
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I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.
Carrie Brownstein
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Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Scott Adams
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The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
Betty MacDonald
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
Willie Stargell
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric Weiner
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Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
Steven Soderbergh
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The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
Haruki Murakami
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It has to start from the inside. I've been juicing like crazy, vegetable juice all day long - instead of drinking coffee. I love green juice, and it's amazing how much more energy I have, my skin looks better. Cleansing and moisturizing every morning and night is also really important, but you can't just depend on your creams. I have to do more for the inside so it shows on the outside.
Milla Jovovich
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I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
Sarah Vowell
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When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
Shirley Henderson
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No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.
Cherise Sinclair
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Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don’t fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I’ve ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.
Daniel Burka