Interview, New York Times, Dec 1, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/business/international/indonesia-economy-interest-rates.html?_r=0
2015
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”
From Mary Poppins, 1964
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
“I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong… with a spoon in them.”
Glorious (1997)
Variant: I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup.
Source: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
“Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.”
Source: The Drawing of the Three
“Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”
Source: Betrayals
“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.”
Dilbert Blog, Sleepless in California, 2006-07-21, http://web.archive.org/20060814050102/dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/07/sleepless_in_ca.html, 2006-08-14 http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/07/sleepless_in_ca.html,
“It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.”
"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
