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Coffee Shop Quotes

A couple weeks later Blake worked up to walking to the coffee shop by himselfand most other places too. Eve had watched from behind a tree the afternoon she found him sitting on the patio, just basking in the sun. That very night Blake had proposed to Livia with their great-grandmother's ring. And Livia had said yes.
- Debra Anastasia

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
- Raymond Chandler

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
- Garrison Keillor

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.
- Garrison Keillor

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Bill Gates

We come together as a community in our sitting room, in sacred space or in a coffee shop. We share our joy and pain, our surprises and disappointments, successes and failures and we try to make some sense of it all. We listen to find some way to connect. We give reassurance or advice. Sometimes we say nothing because just being there is enough. Storytelling is that moment in time when we are not alone - I met my Soul in a Coffee Shop
- Louise Gilbert

This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.
- Adam Gopnik

They were in love! Carla wore her hair up and Andrew saw everything as a sign. They spent an entire afternoon sitting side by side in a coffee shop, taking more meaning than necessary from the world around them. A man wearing boxing gloves walked down the sidewalk in front of them and they took that to mean they would be together forever.
- Amelia Gray

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
- Mary Schmich

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
- Tom Hiddleston

Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with "The Moment"that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, pleaselet it be him.
- Julie James

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
- Jewel

I asked the girl at the coffee shop out on a date. Unfortunately she said no, probably because I asked her out to coffee.
- Jarod Kintz

Suburban generic, right down to the coffee shop sharing the parking lot, so the yuppies could have their frothy caffeine fixes before they even left the property. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable-even a status symbol-when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
- Stacia Kane

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
- Kyle Maclachlan

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
- Donald Miller

I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV.
- Scott Patterson

Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop
- Thomas Pynchon

When he sat up, she gave a sigh and relaxed against the lounge, the exquisite torture over.
His eyes crinkled. "You might not have noticed," he said as if having a conversation in a coffee shop or something, "but last time I looked, women possess two breasts.
- Cherise Sinclair

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
- Ian Somerhalder

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again.
- Darnell Lamont Walker

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.
- Peter Welch

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