Barista Quotes

#1. Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

Taylor Swift

#2. I slapped a big fake smile on my face like I did every day, as a cam girl, as a barista, as anything, because women are taught to smile, that smiling means men are less likely to hurt us.

Leah Raeder

#3. The job market, however, proved distressingly uncooperative. All of the local barista positions had been filled by more enterprising philosophy majors, and Arthur lacked the skills to do much beyond make a cup of coffee.

J. Zachary Pike

#4. Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.

Howard Schultz

#5. World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Timothy Ferriss

#6. I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

Valerie June

#7. Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you're over 50, different rules apply.

Russell Smith

#8. There was a time when I fancied myself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10,000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that.

Michael McGirr

#9. What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.

Beth Littleford

#10. 'Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.'
The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.'
'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.'

S.W. Vaughn

#11. He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an angry barista at an indie coffee shop whose dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter were dwindling by the hour.

Lev Grossman

#12. You can't drink 'English afternoon tea' in the morning," the barista said to her, his eyes blazing like shards of crystal meth about to ignite. "Do you want to be responsible for fucking up the universe?

Christa Carmen

#13. I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

Lisa Graff

#14. Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Aleksandar Hemon

#15. The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee ...

Mark Hart

#16. I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!

Andrew Zimmern

#17. My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

Troian Bellisario

#18. Just fuck me up.
A caffeine-addict placing an order with the barista.

Julie Johnson

#19. Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

Samuel Butler

#20. God not only accepts us, he embraces us.

Stasi Eldredge

#21. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Bharati Mukherjee

#22. There are no rogue ships; there are only rogue shipowners.

Barista Uno

#23. For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Martin Luther

#25. If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#26. Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#27. Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

Narendra Modi

#28. I always had a weak chin because we couldn't afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was - kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn't it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.

Carol Burnett

#29. What's the use in being diplomatic? I'd rather just pull my weapon and wing it.

C.J. Redwine

#30. They slept that deep sleep reserved for babies and consenting adults who have worn their bodies out with hot sex.

Carolyn Brown

#31. Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#32. Oscar Wilde may have quipped that one can "never be overdressed or overeducated," but Wilde did not live in our era of overeducated baristas.

Usman W. Chohan

#33. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Charles A. Lindbergh