Coffee Quotes

• I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Coffee

• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Some days, the first coffee just laughs at you. It says, 'Oh, you think I'm going to wake you up? Sucker.'

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Up
  • Coffee

• I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Coffee
  • Philosophical
  • Grave

• My wife made me a book of photographs she took of our road trip across the United States. Makes for a good coffee table book.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Good
  • She
  • Book

• It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Water
  • Juice
  • Hazelnuts

• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Professional
  • Identity
  • Lawyer

• So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Past
  • Coffee

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

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Bad
  • Try
  • Habits

• I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Coffee

• Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Feeling
  • Waiting

• I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Coffee
  • Lonely
  • Drinking

• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.

  

  James Marsden
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • People
  • Singing
  • Homeless

• I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Wife
  • Daughter
  • Coffee

• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Coffee

• On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

  

  Jessica Stroup
  • Water
  • Coffee

• He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Invasion

• I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Light

• On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Work
  • Live
  • Words

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