Quotes About Coffee Houses

#1. To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.

Timur Vermes

#2. After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

Marshall Brickman

#3. I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

Judy Collins

#4. When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

Tom Standage

#5. Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

Heather Brooke

#6. When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

Aaron Carter

#7. Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.

Gavin John Adams

#8. I sang in the coffee houses ... in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

Judy Collins

#9. For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

Dan Fogelberg

#10. Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

Heather Brooke

#11. I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.

Joanna Bolouri

#12. I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems ... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Elon Musk

#13. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

May Sarton

#14. I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Josephine Baker

#15. Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#16. We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

Jeff Bezos

#17. For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Kate Walsh

#18. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Bill Wilson

#19. Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

James Dobson

#20. I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. You wanted to commit suicide and couldn't quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick. With no movie houses, concerts, bars, mixed-sex coffee shops, or parties there was little to do at night and we drove down a highway that was almost deserted.

Terry Hayes

#22. Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.

Tom Standage

#23. It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always made of the wrong of some one else.

Henry James

#24. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.

Penny Reid

#25. When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#26. We might as well get started. Help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it that makes you so ashamed of being a grown-up? Oh. The way you both look at me. I'm trying to think of a better word than dread.

Warrior Doctor

#27. Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Victor Hugo

#28. I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

Maira Kalman

#29. Mike Hawk!" Bennett practically yelled at me, dropping his hand. His eyes were red from laughing. "How am I supposed to keep it together over that? That's like meeting a fucking unicorn.

Christina Lauren