Quotes by Coffee Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf. Dave Foley wife coffee jobs Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music. Dave Grohl six coffee people The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often. David Foster Wallace coffee eye real And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean. David Foster Wallace coffee powerful mistake When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative. David Kim coffee children people I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water. David Letterman coffee hate water If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all. David Letterman coffee personality ifs Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity. David Letterman coffee sin humanity She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. David Nicholls notebook coffee believe I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there. David Lynch creativity coffee mean There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. David Lynch coffee dark thinking Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director. David Mamet coffee fire directors I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. David Lynch cappuccino cups coffee Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. David Letterman espresso coffee personality Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee! David Letterman clinton loser coffee You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it? David Letterman coffee drinking thinking You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime? David Levithan coffee ...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market. David Ogilvy coffee years moving Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only. David Mamet coffee I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair. David Starkey coffee writing thinking «1011121314151617181920»