The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.
So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
The only time I'll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I've left too long before drinking.
Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.
If mugs made fart noises coffee shops wouldn't be relaxing, they'd sound like a yoga class in a retirement home.
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
My main home is in Morecambe Bay on a little island called Roa, where there are 13 houses, a lifeboat station, a boat club and a cafe.
So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.
Being able to train and compete alongside the WWE - which houses some of the world's most talented athletes - is an amazing opportunity.
Some days, the first coffee just laughs at you. It says, 'Oh, you think I'm going to wake you up? Sucker.'
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
I'm very thankful to live in a country where the government provides my protection - many police and armored cars and safe houses and things like that.
I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.
My goal is to continue to build Marley Coffee distribution and add our own stand-alone retail stores.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.
My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.
I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.
We started Marley Coffee from a farm perspective, and ever since, we've been doing things in a sustainable way and organically.
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?
I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.
When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
I wake up around nine, drink a cup of coffee, answer some emails, and ease myself into the day.
Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
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