Caffeine Trivia 01.31.12

A quote overheard on the Twin Peaks television show: “I’ve just arrived in New York City. What a place! Just smell those skyscrapers. Had breakfast at a little deli on Ninth Avenue. Cheese Danish and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hit the spot.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.30.12

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, provided this 1997 quote: “We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.29.12

Irvin Berlin wrote this in 1932:

“Just around the corner,
There’s a rainbow in the sky.
So let’s have another cup o’ coffee,
And let’s have another piece o’ pie.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.28.12

Comedian Dave Barry quipped, “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.”

I have to agree with Dave Berry!

Caffeine Trivia 01.27.11

In the movie Moonstruck, Cher commented:

“You make good coffee . . . You’re a slob, but you make good coffee.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.26.12

I could have written today’s quote:
I don’t have a problem with caffeine.  I have a problem without caffeine!  ~Author Unknown

Caffeine Trivia 01.25.12

Gertrude Stein said that, “Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.24.12

Frederick the Great complained, “It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were his officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer; and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be depended upon to endure hardships or to beat his enemies in case of … another war.”

Caffeine Trivia 01.23.12

Conan O’Brien joked, “”Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’”

Caffeine Trivia 01.17.12

“The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee”.
by Edna Lewis