Sipping Quotes
69 quotes by 57 authors
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The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from…
— Dean Koontz
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There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.
— Maurice Sendak
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Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely…
— Daniel Handler
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It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
— Neil Gaiman
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We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can…
— Greg Mortenson
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It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be…
— Ray Bradbury
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Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.…
— Wendell Berry
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle…
— David Levithan
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Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping…
— Ted Dekker
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I’m really not hungry,†she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,†he cajoled, taking his…
— Linda Howard
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Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think you're her type. She's into the Goth and…
— Richelle Mead
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Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and…
— Brandon Sanderson
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That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian,…
— Stephen Fry
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I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening…
— Catherine Anderson
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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day…
— Anne Bronte
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Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
— Gilbert White
Who Wrote These Sipping Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 69 Sipping Quotes, led by these top contributors: