When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Betty returns in a couple of minutes, setting down our pots of tea and two towers of treats. There are small tea… — Kiana Krystle Copy Share Image
There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ...… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients… — Jerry Baldwin Copy Share Image
The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I'm not going to change myself because I think it'll make somebody like me more. And in terms of being a business,… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some… — Brad Carson Copy Share Image
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“I couldn't find my cup of tea. So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The Washington establishment does not like the Tea Party. Don't you love all these politicians that run around and campaign as outsiders,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in the house; I… — Denise Vasi Copy Share Image
Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one,… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Kakuzo Okakura Copy Share Image
Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If I hosted a high tea at home it would be an Italian aperitivo-style high tea. I'd make little meatballs with lemon… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image