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“Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.”

Ifs Asks Drinking Cups Tea Kitchen Holiday Strings Guests Slides Beans Cups Of Tea House Guests

Author:Anne Fine

“England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.”

Stars Fate England Fortune Cups Tea Host Boast Toss Fortune Telling

Book:Poems ...: In Two Volumes

Source: Poems ...: In Two Volumes

“I hire tea by the tea bag.”

Money Food Cooking Tea Bags Culinary Tea Bag

Book:Money

Source: Money

“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.”

Men Sports Red Baseball Tea Supremacy Famous Baseball Survival Of The Fittest Great Baseball

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.”

Men Tea Estates Spinning Forsake Knitting Splitting Needlework

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“A cup of tea is a cup of peace.”

Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:Ken Cohen

“Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest”

World Heart I Can Water My Heart Mountain Corruption Tea Streams Mountain Streams

Author:Ueda Akinari

“It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.”

Looks Party Tea Tea Party

Author:Russ Feingold

“Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.”

Enjoy Simple Meditation Cups Tea Intensity Simple Things Cups Of Tea Deep Meditation

Author:Rajneesh

“If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.”

People Ifs Asks Prayer Meditation Listening Drink Creating Silent Tea Melody Kettles Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.”

Way Want Writing Book Self Dream Force Stuff Powerful Drinking Tea Most Powerful Imaginary Polite Dreams Come True Thighs Unstoppable Sticking Out Machetes Drinking Tea

Author:Laini Taylor

“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.”

World Way Heart Spiritual Pleasure Consciousness This World Clarity Agents Luxury Tea Realms Preparing Tranquility Cheaper Benign Heart To Heart Refreshments Elixir

Author:James Norwood Pratt

“The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”

Humans May Wonder Tears Blame Cups Tea Enjoyment Infinity Outsiders Thirst Seeming Tempest Drained Dregs

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.”

May Sweet Worship Flow Warm Tea Queens Streams Why Not Altars Liquid Amber Ivory Bacchus Porcelain Reticence

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?”

Ifs Wells Doe Enough Tea Lacking Brewing Teapots

Author:Sen no Rikyu

“The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.”

Government Felt Born Party Crisis Financial Tea Contemplating Disgusting Principal Federal Government Reducing Mortgage Tea Party Financial Crisis

Author:Mark Zandi

“Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.”

Giving Facts Jobs Sleep Produce Theory Give Me Lawyer Tea Afternoon Noon Invigorating

Book:Mars and the mind of man

Source: Mars and the mind of man

“You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Home Might Cold Circumstances Gay Hot Tired Following Refuse Nervous Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:George Mikes

“Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.”

Thinking Way Happens Certain Rooms Conversation Hollywood Agents Tea Improvisation Love Always

Author:Ann Beattie

“'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.”

War America Political Party Race Events Movement Rage Tea Protest Anti War 1960s Demonstration Riot Tea Party Anti War Movement Outside Looking In Tea Party Movement Race Riots

Author:Jonathan Raban

“I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.”

China Tea

Author:Minnie Driver

“As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.”

Giving Hard School Boys Tea Relate Charm Recalls Jars Pickles

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.”

Ifs Writing Humans Said Real Reality Political House Deals Poet Sitting Drinking Response Glasses Tea Poetry Is Glass Houses Drinking Tea

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.”

Stills Nice Rocks Drink Profound Dinner Cups Tea Breakfast Thinker Lunch Rebel Rock And Roll Cups Of Tea Maniacs

Author:Pamela Des Barres

“An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.”

Mean Body Would Be Boys Dog Office Lows Prepared London Enjoyed Tea Lowest

Author:George Carey

“At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.”

Party Roots Tea Versus Tea Party

Author:Matt Taibbi

“It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.”

Would Be Tea Racist Narcissist

Author:Matt Taibbi

“The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.”

Country Party Leader Highest Roots Vote Defeat Priorities Barack Tea Grass Activist Romney November Tea Party

Author:Ted Cruz

“The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.”

Knows Courses Hurt Party Spending Reform Tea Continuing Delay Tea Party Charting

Author:Bob Barr

“Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.”

Thinking Knows Trying Wells Kind Party Movement Concerned Spending Tea Supportive Deficit Tea Party Grassroots Bailouts Grassroots Movements

Author:John Boozman

“The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.”

“The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.”

People Political Nations Party Involved Corruption Tea Threatened Incompetence Tea Party Stakeholder Political Corruption

Author:Tammy Bruce

“I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.”

Self States Bits Percent Population Appreciation Tea

Author:Brad Carson

“I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.”

People Thinking Years Mean Country States Difficult Can Do Percent Tea Divided

Author:Brad Carson

“I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.”

Wanted Boys Tea

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Doe Body Church United Party Yeah Tea Racist Pastor Tea Party Methodists

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.”

Shows Wanted Theater Cups Tea Host Cream Pie Cups Of Tea Whipped Cream

Author:Doug Davidson

“I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.”

Needs Feels Said Particular Israel Cups Tea Nationalism Cups Of Tea

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.”

People Knows Guy Party Streets Wall Glasses Tea Tea Party Scams Repealing Tarp

Author:Russ Feingold

“I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.”

Littles Wine Tea Nuance Flavour Cupboards

Author:Maggie Grace

“There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.”

Shows Party Fairs Program Tea Journalist Cheer Balanced Foxes Commentary Tea Party Brag

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.”

Two House Cities Four Nice Week Dog Missing New York Ready Sweet Eating Cooking Spread Tea New York City Southern Swimming Bedroom Two Weeks Nashville Sweet Tea Cornbread Bedroom House

Author:Justin Townes Earle

“When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea.”

Drink Wake Up Tea Mates

Author:Lisa Edelstein

“Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.”

Death Saved Graves Tea Afternoon Afternoon Tea

Author:Jethro Tull

“Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.”

Want Needs Morning Drug Alcohol Coffee Tea Breakfast Every Morning Buddy Drugs And Alcohol

Author:George Thorogood

“Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.”

World Problem Peace Interest Special Solve Activism Ridiculous Tea Wheels Special Interests Grease Outspoken

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Baby, shut up and let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup.”

Baby Drink Let Me Wine Cups Tea Shut Up Fur

Author:Alice Cooper

“I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.”

Way I Can Tea Motivated Tea Party

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.”

Thinking Understanding Party Concern Difficulty Driven Selfish Bunch Tea Racist Fairness Tea Party

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.”

Enough Party Fellows Conservative Tea Tea Party

Author:Bob Inglis

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