“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”
Source: Farewell, My Lovely
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Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959Related quotes
“Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”
Source: Every Which Way But Dead
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
Source: North of Beautiful
“Wake up and smell the coffee: Gibraltar will never be Spanish!”
Address to the Special Committee on Decolonisation in New York
2012
Context: One of the top Spanish diplomats of recent generations, Snr Inocencio Arias – who was until ten years ago Spain's Permanent Representative at the UN - has recently recognised, in a memoir, that all of Spain's strategies for the recovery of Gibraltar have failed. We did not need to be told that, nor do we want any strategy to succeed, but he is right to have started a debate in Spain which in effect is telling Spanish diplomacy what we have been saying for generations: Wake up and smell the coffee: Gibraltar will never be Spanish! Yet in recent months, the attitude of Spain's foreign ministry appears to have ignored the failures of the past and is working hard to secure even greater failures for the future.
“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”
Source: The Favorite Game
“Wake up and smell the coffee
Is your cup half full or empty?”
"Come Out and Play" (20 November 2018) · YouTube audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXFdnHiGwos, co-written with Finneas O'Connell.
Singles (2017 - )
“…a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…”
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)
“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.”
Variant: He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
Source: We Were Liars