Peets Coffee Quotes & Sayings

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues. — Alan Alda

I blinked as I heard chamber music coming from the other room. "What are you listening to?"
"I picked up a DVD for Luke while I was out. Something with Mozart and sock puppets."
A grin rose to my lips. "At this stage I don't think Luke can see more than ten inches beyond his face."
"That explains his lack of interest. I thought maybe he preferred Beethoven."
-Ella & Jack — Lisa Kleypas

You might not think it sounds like much of a disguise, but I know a thing or two about people. The world notices pretty, well-dressed young women. And it tries real hard not to see the unattractive, sloppy ones. If you're bad enough, you get the thousand-yard stare that slides right off you. — Karen Marie Moning

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. — Dave Barry

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are. — George A. Sheehan

Censorship exists to block criticism and protect corruption. — Suzy Kassem

It seemed as if the train would never depart. Local trains are always somehow overzealous. At first they panic everyone into believing they are just about to thunder off down the track with an almighty jolt, then, at the very last minute, there is always some improbable hitch. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

Unless you learn to deal with your life in its entirety,
there is no permanent solution for human problems. — Sri Amma Bhagwan.

Girl? He pressed.
The name is Riley, she shot back. Learn it. Use it! — Jana Oliver

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. — Adlai Stevenson

Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year? — Saint Francis De Sales

Bad bets sometimes pay off. — Marty Rubin

Look over there - on that corner by the bus stop - isn't that Winchester Stone? As — Richie Tankersley Cusick

The best revenge is to always survive yourself. — Henry Rollins