Coffee Spills Quotes & Sayings

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact. — Ian McKellen

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break, waving his arms and shouting gibberish and holding ten cigarettes at once in his mouth, like a panpipe. Year after year, a face the same color as your desk. Lord Jesus. Coffee wasn't allowed because of spills on the files, but on the break he'd have a big cup of coffee in each hand while he pictured himself running around the outside grounds, shouting. He knew what he'd really do on the break was sit facing the wall clock in the lounge and, despite prayers and effort, count the seconds tick off until he had to come back and do this again. And again and again and again. — David Foster Wallace

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present. — Franz Kafka

The best of it is, God is with us. — John Wesley

When you are invited to drink, and this does occur now and then in New Orleans - and you say, 'What, again? - no, I've had enough;' the other party says, 'But just this one time more - this is for lagniappe.' When the beau perceives that he is stacking his compliments a trifle too high, and sees by the young lady's countenance that the edifice would have been better with the top compliment left off, he puts his 'I beg pardon - no harm intended,' into the briefer form of 'Oh, that's for lagniappe.' If the waiter in the restaurant stumbles and spills a gill of coffee down the back of your neck, he says 'For lagniappe, sah,' and gets you another cup without extra charge. — Mark Twain

I was every stack of books, forever shifting and pounding and being pushed and rearranged but remaining essentially the same; I was every book in every stack. — Ben Stephenson

It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual. — Teresa Heinz

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. — Roger McGuinn

Never quit. Never give up. — Gabby Douglas

I do personal appearances, and I meet my fans, and I am genuinely honored that they come out to say 'Hello' and just to see me. — Daniel Goddard

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Nicholas Kristof

I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.' — Birdy

Facebook done a great job of monetizing social. — Ross Levinsohn

Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today. — Richmond Akhigbe

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.' — Naoto Kan