Tea Leaves Quotes

#1. The method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Anthony Shadid

#3. The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Stephen King

#4. She'd spent enough time trying to read the tea leaves of his heart.

Michael Callahan

#5. Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

Christopher Michael Cillizza

#6. Tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, I never quite understand why English people like teas so.

Graham Greene

#7. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

Kelly Link

#8. Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves ... But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

John Steakley

#9. Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him - not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands - for our confidence in the future.

Billy Graham

#10. Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls ... collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer ... commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

Scott Adams

#11. She smiled sadly and recited a saying: "When the guest leaves, the tea will soon get cold." I said my cup of tea would never get cold. Lu

Anchee Min

#12. I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.

Maryrose Wood

#13. I read the tea leaves
as if they were words
left over from a conversation
between two cups.

Kenny Knight

#14. My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

Selenis Leyva

#15. The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.

Matt Haig

#16. The writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea-leaves blocking a sink.

George Orwell

#17. From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

J.K. Rowling

#18. And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing ... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea ...

Bret Easton Ellis

#19. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.

Mark O'Flynn

#20. I'd yearned for the darkness and repose of Hobie's house, its crowded rooms and old-wood smell, tea leaves and tobacco smoke, bowls of oranges on the sideboard and candlesticks scalloped with puddled beeswax.

Donna Tartt

#21. Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.

Hayley Williams

#22. Frank made a face; an Englishman to the bone, he would rather lap water out of the toilet than drink tea made from teabags. The Lipton's had been left by Mrs. Grossman, the weekly cleaning woman, who thought tea made from loose leaves messy and disgusting.

Diana Gabaldon

#23. The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

William Faulkner

#24. From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl ... as it's flushing. With the lights off.

Guy Kawasaki

#25. To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

Edwidge Danticat

#26. They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Nikita Khrushchev

#27. About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

Soren Kierkegaard

#28. I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Christine Lagarde

#29. A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

Phoebe Stone

#30. Visitors come and go.
Daily I read tea leaves for signs
of the approaching century:
a raven perched on a cross
a sword piercing a cloud
A Victorian Life

Clara Blackwood