Quotes About Starbucks

#1. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

Gerard Way

#3. She informed me that in the future, I was not to throw out Starbucks customers just for being heartless bitches.

Lauren Myracle

#4. During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

Akhil Sharma

#5. In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

Saira Viola

#6. I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

Ryan Lilly

#7. I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

Chris Kattan

#8. My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it's, like, too sweet, and it's overwhelming.

Gigi Hadid

#9. The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

Howard Schultz

#10. Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

Janice Dickinson

#11. Without fanfare, Starbucks was also going to open two coffee shops in Seattle that were not like any of our existing stores. Each would serve Starbucks coffee but be unique

Howard Schultz

#12. 'Being single ... is about hope. It's about the future ... the person you might meet at Starbucks or online or in the next aisle at the grocery store.'

Vicki Pettersson

#13. Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Rory Bremner

#14. What's wrong with Starbucks?" - Levi Stewart

Rainbow Rowell

#15. While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee - we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

Howard Schultz

#16. I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.

Howard Schultz

#17. Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

Adam Hills

#18. We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

Howard Schultz

#19. During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Jimmy Fallon

#20. You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#21. Starbucks itself is a product of diverse global cultures: "Starbuck's customers, whether in Zurich or Beirut, are drinking an American version of an Italian evolution of a beverage invented by Arabs brewed from a bean discovered by Africans."71

Patricia J. Campbell

#22. Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

Howard Schultz

#23. Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

Howard Schultz

#24. If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.

Kengo Kuma

#25. I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

Analeigh Tipton

#26. Google chrome is not safe. The browser is prone to hacks at Starbucks.

David Chiles

#27. Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

Howard Schultz

#28. Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

Will Yun Lee

#29. The signs of older times could still be seen on the facades of sealed buildings: Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie & Fitch - merchants that had sold things people didn't necessarily need but always wanted.

Cameron Stracher

#30. Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Rupert Everett

#31. In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Henry Rollins

#32. All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

Jason Reitman

#33. Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

Ellen DeGeneres

#34. It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

Dave Barry

#35. People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

Eric Weiner

#36. People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

Edward Ruscha

#37. In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

Hamish Linklater

#38. There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.

Marisha Pessl

#39. Starbucks has kept me in the ministry.

Tommy Barnett

#40. You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

Nick Offerman

#41. Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

Howard Schultz

#42. If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, "That guy is kinda delusional."

A. J. Jacobs

#43. I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.

Joe Scarborough

#44. We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.

Howard Schultz

#45. Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup.

Jimmy Fallon

#46. Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me

Michael Gates Gill

#47. Whoever had opened that first Starbucks in Seattle should be shot.

Virna DePaul

#48. They scribbled observations in notebooks.

Reid Hoffman

#49. One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.

Meg Cabot

#50. In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.

Howard Schultz

#51. I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

Zoe Kazan

#52. If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Cory Monteith

#53. Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.

Howard Schultz

#54. For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.

Howard Schultz

#55. People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.

Sam Yagan

#56. You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks ... We've dumbed it down.

Johnny Hunt

#57. Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.

Dov Davidoff

#58. I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra)
Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#59. I'm obsessed with Starbucks seasonal flavors. I love their seasonal cups. I love their pumpkin-flavored coffee. I love that. I absolutely love, love, love Starbucks seasonal everything.

Adrienne Bailon

#60. I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Nikki Sixx

#61. The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.

Chris Kyle

#62. The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.

Adam Schlesinger

#63. Can't take no pride in that flagpole

and you can stick your fucking STARBUCKS
up your tight middle-
class
arseholes.

Andy Carrington

#64. Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Ian Anderson

#65. People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

Howard Schultz

#66. More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

Howard Schultz

#67. [ ... ] a time when anarchists were truly fearsome - less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.

Noam Chomsky

#68. After we go through the Starbucks drive-thru and spend approximately two hundred dollars on four cups of coffee, we head to the studio.

Kim Holden

#69. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

#70. Or maybe I work at Starbucks," he said. She snorted. "Really?" "Really," he said, still smiling. "Someday you'll need health insurance, and you won't think working at Starbucks is funny.

Rainbow Rowell

#71. I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

Cherie Lunghi

#72. Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.

Kevin Hearne

#73. I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

Wentworth Miller

#74. Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.

Lauren Myracle

#75. As jittery as a caffeine addict outside a closed Starbucks.

Karen Robards

#76. Five bucks for coffee?? Freaking Starbucks. They should change their name to Fivebucks.

Katie Kacvinsky

#77. You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.

Sophie Kinsella

#78. Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

Mark Driscoll

#79. If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.

Nasim Pedrad

#80. A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup..

Ashley Purdy

#81. Scott Bedbury, Starbucks' vice president of marketing, openly recognized that "consumers don't truly believe there's a huge difference between products," which is why brands must "establish emotional ties" with their customers

Naomi Klein

#82. Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

Azealia Banks

#83. If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte ... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Reed Hastings

#84. In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.

Gillian Flynn

#85. Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

Howard Schultz

#86. Drinking tea is like kissing your dog. It's warm and wet, sure, but where's the kick? If I need to, I'll just pick up another Venti at the Starbucks and use the bathroom there.

William Lashner

#87. Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.

Brian Posehn

#88. Life happens over coffee

Starbucks

#89. That is why I love Starbucks. It doesn't matter how much money you have or what social world you're from, chances are you will still eventually end up at a Starbucks in order to revel in the taste sensation provided by the Frappuccino. It is the great equalizer of our time.

Kyra Davis

#90. Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

Shirley Manson

#91. Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

Jared Diamond

#92. I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Howard Schultz

#93. The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.

Howard Schultz

#94. The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy, half lowfat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole.

George Carlin

#95. 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

#96. Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement
which was only necessary because of them.

Ann Coulter

#97. I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.

Leon Bridges

#98. Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

Denis Leary

#99. I see a cute guy in Starbucks and I'm like ... 'Oh, okay,' and I walk out. But who knows? Maybe I will ask somebody on a date soon!

Shay Mitchell

#100. There's a million more pros than cons, for sure. Obviously, the privacy thing is a little different. It's not normal to wake up and have 12 paparazzi cars waiting outside to follow you to Starbucks in the morning. But, there's a lot more pros, and I'm willing to put up with those cons, for sure.

Taylor Lautner