Cup Quotes - page 2

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. (L. Neil Smith)
From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. View quote
Robert Fripp
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy. View quote
Robert Fripp
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head. View quote
Robert Browning
It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
A Mormon told me that they don't drink coffee. I said, "A cup of coffee every day gives you wonderful benefits." He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, it keeps you from being Mormon ..." View quote
Emo Philips
At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee. (James Baldwin)
Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup - that's it. View quote
Denis Leary
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex. View quote
Boy George
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?... Was ever anything so civil? View quote
Anthony Trollope
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing. View quote
Omar Khayyám
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
My little cup brims with tiddles. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it! View quote
Fred Phelps
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup. (Alan Hansen)
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. View quote
Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. View quote
Rumi
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. View quote
Anne Brontë
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. View quote
Franz Beckenbauer