Andrea Illy Quotes

#1. Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,

Andrea Illy

#2. It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

Tommy Hilfiger

#4. To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

Arnold Palmer

#5. My very favorite wrestler of all time was Andre the Giant. He was sort of like my best friend, believe it or not, and I have a picture in 'People' magazine of me sitting on his lap when I was 8 years old after 'WrestleMania I.'

Stephanie McMahon

#6. I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

Margaret Cho

#7. Education beats at the heart of sustainability.

Andrea Illy

#8. According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

Marcel Proust

#9. Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Julian Barnes

#10. The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.

Andrea Illy

#11. It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra

#12. Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Jim Horning

#13. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
that I might water an ass at it!

William Shakespeare

#14. Espresso is a miracle of chemistry in a cup,

Andrea Illy

#15. A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.

Banana Yoshimoto

#18. You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you.

Mark W. Boyer

#19. Coffee is the official beverage of culture.

Andrea Illy

#20. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?

Rachel Cohn