Coffee houses Quote by Oscar Zeta Acosta

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species…

— Henry Fielding

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of…

— Kevin Nealon

...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean…

— William Dalrymple

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

— Benjamin Franklin

“To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.”

— Timur Vermes

I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in…

— Victoria Legrand

I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from…

— Bonnie McKee

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on…

— Frances Trollope

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes…

— Bonnie McKee

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round,…

— Lord Byron

I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I was 14,…

— Brian Fallon

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

— Heather Brooke

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television.…

— Judy Collins