A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
Ernest Hemingway
Related Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk.... MICHAEL FOLEY That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then,... GRACE JONES What glasses for which wine, which knife and fork -- that was what frightened them the most. DIANA MATHER I pretty much only drink water, Tazo passion tea, or coffee with half and half, and it's an ongo... IVANKA TRUMP Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate. EVELYNN CROWE Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? SAMUEL JOHNSON [I went to a] coffee shop here and the smallest coffee is a tall... "I need a coffee with a side of ... ELLEN DEGENERES I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine gl... LESLEY GARRETT It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of ... KAKUZō OKAKURA 'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious LORD BYRON I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't! TANYA MASSE I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing throug... ASLAUG MAGNUSDOTTIR A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of w... CONSTANCE FRIDAY I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my ... BARBARA CROOKER I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. ELIOT I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. ELIOT The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditiona... ADAM GOPNIK I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee. W. BRUCE CAMERON The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ... GEORGE EZRA My mother wears glasses, and so do some of my friends. When they get new ones, the old glasses go in... ERIK PER SULLIVAN The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a... SAM SMITH He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m... NADINE GORDIMER Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop THOMAS PYNCHON I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people w... TINA FEY Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank o... LOUIS L'AMOUR If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's ... JASON MRAZ Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. DANISH PROVERB Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm DUTCH PROVERB And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear:... JOHN GREEN I have to have coffee in the morning. OLIVIA CULPO That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear l... JOHN GREEN I think part of it is that my location has been good right here, next to Wine Sellers and Sullivan T... JANE REYNOLDS Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London. KYLE MACLACHLAN I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee... DARYNDA JONES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I c... SARA BAREILLES Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Wa... DARYNDA JONES Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going abo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I never eat between meals and I don't eat junk food. I mostly stick to fish, vegetables and chicken.... JERRY HALL I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits ... DAVID H. MURDOCK Our neighborhood needed a coffee shop. ROSEMARY GONZALES I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ANN ARMSTRONG I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters. DONALD TRUMP He had on a Gilligan hat and mirrored glasses -- you know ... aviator glasses. I thought it was Hall... ERIC PIVA This is our first step in connoisseurship for cigarettes. The lounge is all about introducing the br... BRIAN STEBBINS I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. STEVEN WRIGHT I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. STEPHEN WRIGHT The coffee shop is going to be espresso, cafe latte, Italian-style, high-quality coffee. SHELLY STONT I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't s... ADAM GOPNIK We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke ... TOM ARAYA Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounde... PADMA LAKSHMI In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ... LEON ASKIN Sometimes I drink coffee at 03:57am, only I call it beer, and it's really purple wine, disguised as ... WILL ADVISE Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ARISTOPHANES Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ARISTOPHANES ARISTOPHANES Yeah, I had a headache, really bad. I was in a gas station and there was a pot of coffee and I looke... MIKEY WAY I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company an... EVAN WILLIAMS Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and hel... EMILYANN GIRDNER lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you w... STEPHEN FRY [About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Santa Fe is perfect for bikes because it's compact. It would be a dream of mine to go downtown one S... DAN BAKER Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.] GEORGE HERBERT From wine what sudden friendship springs? JOHN GAY A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken
and not stirred. IAN FLEMING Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laerti... LAERTIUS DIOGENES "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice,
"it was the salmon." CHARLES DICKENS The conscious water saw its God and blushed.
- Richard Crashaw, RICHARD CRASHAW Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ... WILLIAM COWPER Sing! Who sings
To her who weareth a hundred rings?
Ah, who is this lady fine?
The Vine... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires
The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,
An... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers ... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
service of man: that he may bring fo... BIBLE Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth it... BIBLE Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is
deceived thereby is not wise. BIBLE Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities. BIBLE Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store
Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. W.A. BELLAMY Firm and erect the Caledonian stood;
Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;
"Let him drink... ANONYMOUS John Barleycorn was a hero bold,
Of noble enterprise,
For if you do but taste his blood,
... ROBERT BURNS I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the
boughs thereof; now also thy breasts... BIBLE I hang no ivie out to sell my wine;
The nectar of good wits will sell itself. ROBERT ALLOTT (ALLOT) Flight attendants went back and checked the coffee filters, and they were filled with heroin, six ki... RAYMOND KELLY Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunte... ALDO LEOPOLD We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was... FRANNY BILLINGSLEY When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working,... MACKENZIE ASTIN I was working right there 30 seconds earlier. I went inside to get some coffee. It sounded like a Ma... DAVID HAGEN Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought... GARY VAYNERCHUK Coffee is the spoon that stirs your mind CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ... ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in... WONG KAR-WAI You can look in the classifieds in the back of any wine magazine, and there will be ads for wine app... ED MCCARTHY
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l... ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY