Black Coffee Quotes

• Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

  Vidya Balan

  Coffee, Cutting, Black

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• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

  Jack Ketchum

  Coffee, Black, Devil

  Jack Ketchum (2005). “Off season: the unexpurgated edition”, Overlook Connection Pr

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• Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all.

  Andre Simon

  Strong, Coffee, Black

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
  solitude is herb tea and soft music.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Being Alone

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Strong, Coffee, Black

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• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

  Jilly Cooper

  Retirement, Coffee, Food

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• There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.

  Will Rogers

  Wise, Coffee, Agriculture

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Self Worth

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Beautiful, Strong, Coffee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

  Aaron Levie

  Coffee, Hands, Black

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• I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

  Nick Offerman

  Coffee, Oxygen, Eggs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

  Cory Doctorow

  Coffee, Black, Wikipedia

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• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  Jennifer Grant

  Happiness, Dad, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

  Alanis Morissette

  Coffee, Black, Six Months

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I go "I just want a cup of black coffee." She goes "Do you want to try a biscotti? They're from Italy and they're considered a delicacy." Have you ever eaten one of these things? It tastes like a burned cookie. Where I'm from, that's considered a mistake.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Mistake, Coffee

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 25, 2013

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• Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sweet, Morning, Coffee

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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