#coffee

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

grow up and smell the fucking coffee! ↗

— E.L. James

#coffee

The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop. Suffice it to say, I froze. ↗

— Cleo Coyle

#detective #humor #change

I asked the girl at the coffee shop out on a date. Unfortunately she said no, probably because I asked her out to coffee.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dating #rejection #dating

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#coffee table #everywhere #i #i see #marketing

After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#coffee #dressed #forgotten #killing #naked

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humor

I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee. ↗

— Lisa Renee Jones

#faith

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#humour #inspiration #inspirational

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... ↗

— Orson Welles

#orson-welles #life