Quotes about tea
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“If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.”

Source: The Way of Zen (1957), p. 190

“The Democrats are going to lose some seats, probably a lot. But not as many as they would have if the tea baggers weren't winning the primaries because I think voters are generally conservative.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Source: Larry King Live interview (2010)
Context: The Democrats are going to lose some seats, probably a lot. But not as many as they would have if the tea baggers weren't winning the primaries because I think voters are generally conservative. And when I mean — when I say conservative, I mean they're not comfortable with people who are out there, on the left or the right. And these tea baggers are out there. I've said it before probably on your show. When people get in a voting booth, it's like when they go on an airplane. They get scared. They tend to do things that are conservative in nature, even if they're liberal. … I just think that people — they understand our country is in a lot of trouble. Even people who are angry understand that crazy people are not going to make it better. Christine O'Donnell like all these tea baggers has no plan, no agenda. No policy points. They have one advantage. They're running against Democrats. That's their big advantage.

Thinking

“Christine O'Donnell like all these tea baggers has no plan, no agenda. No policy points. They have one advantage. They're running against Democrats. That's their big advantage.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Larry King Live interview (2010)
Context: The Democrats are going to lose some seats, probably a lot. But not as many as they would have if the tea baggers weren't winning the primaries because I think voters are generally conservative. And when I mean — when I say conservative, I mean they're not comfortable with people who are out there, on the left or the right. And these tea baggers are out there. I've said it before probably on your show. When people get in a voting booth, it's like when they go on an airplane. They get scared. They tend to do things that are conservative in nature, even if they're liberal. … I just think that people — they understand our country is in a lot of trouble. Even people who are angry understand that crazy people are not going to make it better. Christine O'Donnell like all these tea baggers has no plan, no agenda. No policy points. They have one advantage. They're running against Democrats. That's their big advantage.

“You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.”

Peter Kay (1973) English writer, producer, actor and comedian

Mum Wants A Bungalow Tour [2003]

“After coming back to America, it was really a no-brainer. When we saw the Tea Party come from out of nowhere...we had the Russian perspective coming into it...It was very obvious. When we started connecting all the dots, it went right to Charles and David Koch.”

Yasha Levine journalist

Yasha Levine: using the web to fight 'journalistic malpractice', June 14, 2012 https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/14/3076664/yasha-levine-the-exiled-journalism-interview

“All this humbug of curing unemployment by Exchequer grants is one of the most superficial and ill considered proposals that has ever been foisted upon the Party. There is no more Socialism in it than there was in the cup of tea that I had at breakfast this morning.”

Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom

Letter to Walton Newbold (2 June 1930), quoted in David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (Metro, 1997), p. 538
1930s

“Professor Einstein would not have liked a stuffy tribute. My wife and I loved him. He was a charter subscriber to the Weekly, and often strained its primitive bookkeeping facilities by renewing when no renewal was due. We and our three children had the great pleasure on several occasions of having tea with him at his home. It was like going to tea with God, not the terrible old God of the Bible but the little child’s father-in-heaven, very kind, very wise and yet himself very much like a child, too…”

I. F. Stone (1907–1989) American investigative journalist and author

Stone's obituary tribute to Einstein, April 1955, reprinted in The Best of I. F. Stone and quoted in I. F. Stone Remembered, 22 September 2006, radioopensource.org http://radioopensource.org/if-stone-remembered/,

Home, God, Children, Pleasure

“Indian Gold, Indian tea and Indian petrol to the nation: When car manufacturer Hyundai made her brand ambassador for their Getz model, production capacity doubled. She had not yet won a major tournament, but her fame was spreading well beyond Asia: soon she would be on the front of Time magazine and selected by the New Statesman as one of 10 young people with the potential to change the world.”

Sania Mirza (1986) Indian tennis player

India's most wanted

Time, People, Cars, World

“He was one of the few judges who could occasionally poke fun at himself. He told me that once he was sitting at a dinner at the Cambridge University where a number of distinguished persons had been invited. Next to him was an elderly gentleman whose identity he did not know. There was some discussion about the theory of relativity and he aired his own views with a certain measure of authority. His neighbour told him that his views were interesting and invited him for a cup of tea in the next two or three days. Later on he found out that he had been talking to the world renowned physicist Sir Arthur Eddington who was reputed as one of the few persons apart from Einstein who understood the theory of relativity. He never picked up the courage to go for that cup of tea and face Sir Arthur Eddington.”

Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India

M.H. Kania
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice M. Hidayatullah

Courage, Personality, Universe, World

“MY husband and I were on a train journey and at a wayside station I asked him to get me a cup of tea. When he returned, just as the train was steaming out, I saw him standing at the door of the compartment, teacup in one hand, trying busily to get rid of his w:Flip-flops}chappal. `What are you doing?”

K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) 9th Vice President and the 10th President of India

I asked. "Oh, nothing. I accidentally dropped one of the pair at the platform... I can't get it back... What is the use of my keeping one when the man who finds the first will need both?
His wife Usha Narayanan
A remarkable life-story

Training

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

Question, Time, Indecision

“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.”

Kakuzo Okakura book The Book of Tea

Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea (1906), Ch. II.

Art

“In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation, and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing.”

William Gibson book Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

Fish, Drink, Age

“At home, sipping Russet Tea,
I marvelled more and more
That pretty pretexts such as these
Should make folks leave the store.
I comforted myself to think I'd told 'em
pretty plain;
You've cut your nose to spite your face;
you'll soon come back again."”

Timothy Quill (1901–1960) Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist

By Quill:, 1930s, She Left The Store

Home, Thinking, Making love

“As someone who has been a carer, I can say that you will often find yourself at the end of your tether and ranting over cups of tea. You have to remember that and then you're fine, because no one pats themselves on the back at the end and says: "Good job."”

Pam Ferris (1948) British actress

This much I know: Pam Ferris https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/22/this-much-i-know-pam-ferris (21 January 2012)

“There were so many possible logical holes in that statement that Irene could have used it as a tea-strainer.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 6 (pp. 64-65)

“I love it, but it doesn't knock me out.
I think it's great, but it could be better.
I like it a lot, it's just not my cup of tea,
yet if you were to change the melody,
take out a part that you think should be here,
put in a part that wouldn't otherwise appear?
Well, it's only an idea.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"I hate it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. In other words, I quite enjoyed it. Apart from which, it's the best you've ever done yet if you were to change the words it would be superb... with perhaps a different melody...?" "I Love It But..." (song) Gilbert O'Sullivan, "I Love It But..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ip4ZvgO0Hw (song on YouTube) Song lyrics

Appearance, Idea, Change, Thinking

“Stand on the edge of the abyss and when you feel that it is beyond your strength, break off and have a cup of tea.”

Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993) Russian monk, theologian and writer

In conversation with Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, 20 September 1992
Others
Source: [PEMPTOUSIA: A Conversation with Elder Sophrony, 12 July 2015, https://pemptousia.com/2015/07/a-conversation-with-the-elder-sophrony/, 11 July 2021]

Feeling

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Quotes about tea
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