Caffeine Quote by Greg Egan Download Open image “Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.” — Greg Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caffeine Century Society Twentieth century Use
“Which has more caffeine--tea or coffee? Maybe it is a reflection of our constant struggle to ward off sleep, or simply the desire for… — Anahad O'Connor Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for… — Margaret Meagher Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Coffee was the substance that kept us going. Our surgeons had offered us something stronger, but we were all concerned about our performance deteriorating… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
“In the first decade of the 20th century, drinking rates actually increased. The advertising of alcohol in the early 20th century was sophisticated and… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting. — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
“I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.” — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“People are always doing studies. Now there's one that says drinking coffee can lead to the prevention of memory loss in old age. This… — Ariel Leve Copy Share Image
“People around the world drink more coffee than any other drink besides water: four hundred billion cups a year.” — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“coffee, followed by a nap of ten to twenty minutes, is the ideal technique” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“I was recruited by the dead,’ Zak said. ‘Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“You have to be doubly foolish to be a Satanist,” Stoney muttered. “Doubly?” “Not only do you need to believe all the nonsense of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“The Transmuters had built a structure that dwarfed universes, but touched each one only lightly. They hadn’t turned whole worlds to rubble, they hadn’t… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“My earliest memories are of CP4 — that's a Kähler manifold that looks locally like a vector space with four complex directions, though the… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I drink mate every day during training camp, and just in general. It's packed full of vitamins and nutrients and a lot of B… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image