Coffee And Brownie Quotes & Sayings

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety. — Lorrie Moore

Human Reason cannot be reduced to the result of evolutionary adaptation; art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium of Truth; — Slavoj Zizek

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. — R.D. Ronald

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off. — Kate Winslet

The girl, who was thirteen, had been found mutilated and frozen into the muddy earth. This had — Stephen King

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James

She stood looking at me, and, of course, I stood looking at her.
"Am I pretty?"
"Yes; I think you are very pretty."
"Am I insulting?"
"Not so much so as you were last time," said I.
"Not so much so?"
"No."
She fired when she asked the last question, and she slapped my face with such force as she had, when I answered it.
"Now," said she. "You little course monster, what do you think of me now?"
"I shall not tell you."
"Because you are going to tell upstairs. Is that it?"
"No," said I. "That is not it."
"Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?"
"Because I'll never cry for you again," said I. — Charles Dickens

Little things console us because little things afflict us. — Blaise Pascal

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. — Andre Malraux

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. — Dalai Lama

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected. — Albert Schweitzer

The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones. — John Connolly