Coffee Newsletter Quotes & Sayings

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. — Gyorgy Ligeti

often in The Descent of Man, "my dog" steps forth as major evidence. — Tom Wolfe

Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not. — Erika Johansen

It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love's absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives. — Bell Hooks

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
In a Yankee girl
You got to me
I heard you callin' 'round the world
From your back roads
Tennessee — Shawn Colvin

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time. — Richard Koch

I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance. — John Gierach