“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”
Source: Ulysses
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon book Lady Audley's Secret
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) Danish artist
Getting to know him, I understood that the right way was with a certain sense of justice.
1995 and later, interview in Kirkeby’s home studio, Copenhagen (2012)
“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director
Source: Viola in Reel Life
Uri Geller (1946) Israeli illusionist
"Uri Geller recalls his pre-spoon-bending days; Interview by Rae Lewis," The Evening Standard (London), November 2, 1998
“It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Commenting on American Football, in interview with Howard Cosell on ABC Television (December 1974)
“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
Jonathan Stroud book The Creeping Shadow
Source: The Creeping Shadow
“Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) British writer
The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.
Also used as a tagline for the 1960 film adaptation.
Criticism
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Aboard the Presidential train during the journey to Fulton, Missouri (March 4, 1946); quoted in Conflict and Crisis by Robert Donovan, University of Missouri Press (1996), p. 190 ISBN 082621066X
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“When I make a photograph, I make love.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer
in 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
From Adams to Stieglitz' (1990)