Percolator Coffee Quotes & Sayings

If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light. — Subhan Zein

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad
stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American
percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes,
served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure
spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup
contains more caffeine than four espressos. — Umberto Eco

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. — Elvis Costello

His own percolator took ten minutes to warm up, and ten minutes without coffee was ten minutes of his life wasted. — Catriona King

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history. — Michael Parenti

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country. — Kellie Pickler

I stared back at him with something that, I realize now, was close to cellular recognition. In one glance, he recalled my father, my first boyfriend, my college love, my future. — Alison Singh Gee

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land. — Seneca The Younger

Reflection makes men cowards. — William Hazlitt

The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions. — Simon Anholt

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato. — Sarah Dessen

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator. — Joni Mitchell