Demitasse Cup Quotes & Sayings

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. — Kevin McDonald

If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care. — Tarvaris Jackson

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers. — Margaret Chan

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand. — Ezra Taft Benson

A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction. — Klaus Schwab

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!" — Brian Blessed

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves. — Yixing Zhang

Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one of the few persons who could pull that kind of thing off and leave the hostess saying how charming he was.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward — Carl Bernstein

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a better idea,' said she. 'Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama in Khaipur.'
'The Fornicatorium, madam?'
She frowned. 'As such is it often known to the vulgar, and do not call me 'madam' in the same breath
it smacks of ancient jest. It is a place of rest, pleasure, holiness and much of my revenue. — Roger Zelazny

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine. — Tom Araya

Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional. — C.J. Milbrandt

Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Thoreau said: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about? — Anonymous

You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well. — Robert Kiyosaki

At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time. — Jon Pareles