Top 100 Quotes About A Cup
#1. I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.
Lady Gaga
#2. Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#3. There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.
Miranda Kerr
#4. I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
Anthony Lane
#5. Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'
Robert D. Hare
#6. Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt.
Alan Bradley
#7. I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
Mark Helprin
#8. A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.
Margaret Becker
#9. In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.
Max Bemis
#10. The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
Alexander MacLaren
#11. Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup.
Gregory Maguire
#12. Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.
Richard Brautigan
#13. I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!
Rebecca Mader
#14. ...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils."
Mr Sharnall's face fell.
"You ought to have been an old woman," he said; "only old women drink cocoa. Well, I don't mind if I do; any port in a storm.
John Meade Falkner
#15. When I want to travel I don't need an airplane, train, or bike. Just give me a comfortable seat, a cup of tea, and a really good book.
Unknown
#16. Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail.
Sara Sheridan
#17. For beauty is God's handwriting ... A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.
Susan Orlean
#19. A nice warm shower, a cup of tea, and a caring ear may be all you need to warm your heart.
Charles F. Glassman
#20. Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another.
George R R Martin
#21. Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.
Charlie Wilson
#22. I grabbed my coat. We were off.
Well, I grabbed my coat, waited the best part of an hour for Hanne to choose between one pair of black trousers and another virtually identical pair, had a cup of tea, approved the trousers, and then we were off.
Danny Wallace
#23. A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
Jayne Mansfield
#24. I shall be glad of a cup of coffee as soon as possible.
George Eliot
#26. You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis
#27. ...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]
Tom Gleisner
#28. If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
Ramana Maharshi
#29. I have no nerves at all about singing or playing stuff ... and if I can have a cup of tea nearby, then I'm very much at home.
Jamie Lawson
#30. When dawn spread its cool clear flush over the meadows and fields and thorny pastures to the north and east, Duane pulled an old lawn chair out of the cabin and sat down to watch, cradling a cup of coffee in his hands. It was chilly enough that he threw an old poncho over his lap.
Larry McMurtry
#31. I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
Amy Sedaris
#32. Most enema scenes are intensely sociable ones, with two or more people gathered around a vessel that supports, on its lid, a cup for drinking and a syringe for enemas (e.g., K530, K4605).
Stephen Houston
#33. At that moment Fr. Sophrony was preparing tea for Fr. Vladimir, and he replied, 'Stay on the verge of despair, but when you see that you are going to fall over, draw back and have a cup of tea.' And he handed him some tea.
Archimandrite Zacharias
#34. There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
Catherynne M Valente
#35. Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles
#36. Anyway, a bear jumped on my back that afternoon as I was studying, so I made myself a cup of coffee, which I decided to enjoy on the stone bench in the backyard.
Casey McMillin
#37. If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#38. Loneliness was tricky: a cup filled at one moment with freedom, and the next, with emptiness.
Laura Resau
#39. An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
Colin Meloy
#40. The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.
Hernando Cortes
#41. Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
Noel Gallagher
#42. I was about to warn the girl about John's coffee, which tasted like a cup of battery acid someone had pissed in and then cursed at for several hours, but John turned to her and in a lawyerly voice said, Shelly, tell us your story.
David Wong
#43. Places I Would Rather Be, Edition 1821
By Lady Olivia Bevelstoke
France
With Miranda
With Miranda in France
In bed with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with either with a cup of chocolate or a newspaper
Julia Quinn
#45. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn
#46. A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
Horace
#47. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
Maya Angelou
#48. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
Amy Carmichael
#49. The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.
Lucy Punch
#51. Overworked, as usual. It happens to those who are particularly good at their jobs. She handed Eve a cup of tea in one of the pretty china cups.
J.D. Robb
#52. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. Broadway will give any beggar a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it demands persistence of those who go after the big stakes.
Napoleon Hill
#54. Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.
Dominic Savio
#55. I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
Edith Wharton
#56. There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.
Patti Smith
#57. i have
so much love
to give,
but no one
ever wants
it.
- a cup overfilled.
Amanda Lovelace
#58. He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
Anne Lamott
#59. Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered.
Liane Moriarty
#60. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
Bill Watterson
#61. I'd give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.
Ilona Andrews
#62. In the space between our bodies
there is a cup holder filled with pennies
a distance which can often take years to cross
Mira Gonzalez
#63. I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
Robert Fripp
#65. Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.
Danica Patrick
#66. Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.
Heloise
#67. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Oscar Wilde
#68. At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of us, of the way that, though our talents are small and peculiar, we use them to their best advantage.
Nick Hornby
#69. I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.
Steven Herrick
#70. He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
Haruki Murakami
#71. On the day of the game you get there quite early, about 10 o'clock for a 3 o'clock kick-off, because you do a little bit of filming early on. You need to meet the crew and they need to have time to get a cup of tea and all those things the crew like to do before they go out filming.
Jill Douglas
#72. I see Kayla dragged you into this."
I smiled at him. "No, sir, I just came to borrow a cup of sugar."
"Heh.
Ilona Andrews
#73. My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
May-Britt Moser
#74. I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
Paul Colman
#75. A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.
Jeff Lindsay
#76. Take a cup of love Add a dash of care Mix with kindness Add a bit of patience Top it off with faith Sprinkle liberally with understanding Share with everyone you meet
Viola Shipman
#77. Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
Gary Neville
#78. I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived.
Stephen Furst
#79. Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
Rebecca West
#80. Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.
Luke Pasqualino
#81. But what is shape? Only a cup for the blazing soul that God provides us all.
Ray Bradbury
#82. I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
Steven Wright
#83. Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling.
J.K. Rowling
#84. Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale
#85. Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.
Lois Greiman
#86. If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#87. Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Thomas Noon Talfourd
#88. I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.
Eckhart Tolle
#89. I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#90. We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
Laura Carmichael
#91. Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?
Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.
Marissa Meyer
#92. I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#93. Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.
Laozi
#94. Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino ... Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.
Denis Leary
#95. When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.
Stan Redding
#96. A cup of tea is a cup of peace.
Ken Cohen
#97. The policewoman slid a cup of grey tea across the interview table.
Garrett Leigh
#98. The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
William Dean Howells
#99. Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.
Neal Stephenson
#100. The difference between the quest for the Holy Grail and someone saying 'bring me a cup' is the flavor text and the number of stops involved.
Bryan Fields
