Paper Cup Quotes

#1. You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

Dave Eggers

#2. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

#3. Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

Jodi Picoult

#4. It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

Emily Deschanel

#5. My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem.

Kim Harrison

#6. A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

Raymond Chandler

#7. LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

Raymond Chandler

#8. Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.

Chloe Thurlow

#9. Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother's garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. Sometimes I feel like I'm floating alone in the ocean. Other times I feel like the ocean's in a paper cup.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#11. A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

Nicholson Baker

#12. I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.

Tristan Prettyman

#13. I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

Bruno Tonioli

#14. If you were green tea, I'd be your tea cup. If you were dark chocolate, I'd be the paper that wraps you up. If you were a train, I'd be your tracks
If you were a brain, I'd be the heart attached.

Coco J. Ginger

#15. It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Harold Macmillan

#16. If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.

Matt Smith