Caffeine Quotes
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“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Revelation Space
― Revelation Space

“The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.”
― American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
― American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users 鈥� and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”
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“I just don鈥檛 understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.”
― Deadline
― Deadline

“Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.”
― Preventing Alzheimer's: Ways to Help Prevent, Delay, Detect, and Even Halt Alzheimer's Disease and OtherForms of Memory Loss
― Preventing Alzheimer's: Ways to Help Prevent, Delay, Detect, and Even Halt Alzheimer's Disease and OtherForms of Memory Loss

“My heart beats too loudly at the change in plans.
Changes happen sometimes; they aren鈥檛 always a bad thing. I grip my coffee cup and wriggle my toes. I can do this, the coffee says; of course you can, the meds reply.”
― Peta Lyre鈥檚 Rating Normal
Changes happen sometimes; they aren鈥檛 always a bad thing. I grip my coffee cup and wriggle my toes. I can do this, the coffee says; of course you can, the meds reply.”
― Peta Lyre鈥檚 Rating Normal

“Caffeine鈥� is a euphemism for 鈥楢nxiety wrapped in increased alertness鈥�.”
― P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
― P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate.
[Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]”
― The World of Caffeine

“Her dark thoughts spilled like a large coffee overflowing in an espresso cup. The coffee was bitter and strong, full of caffeine. It was a drug she didn't like, an addiction of darkness that was embedded inside her. It was a coffee being served without a smile, and one that she didn't want to drink.”
― The Colours of Denial
― The Colours of Denial

“The coffee was shockingly, blisteringly good: hot but not hot enough to scald, the paper cup warm in Mahit's palms. It had a rich, earthy taste that wasn't anything like the instant coffee on Lsel, and in some better moment Mahit thought she'd really like to drink it slowly enough to think about all the different qualities of the flavor-
鈥筎here are varieties,> Yskandr said, 鈥筧nd they all taste different. It's fantastic. But the important part is the caffeine.>
He was right. Even in the few minutes Mahit had been drinking the coffee, she felt more present, more acute, conscious of a faint thrumming in her skin.”
― A Memory Called Empire
鈥筎here are varieties,> Yskandr said, 鈥筧nd they all taste different. It's fantastic. But the important part is the caffeine.>
He was right. Even in the few minutes Mahit had been drinking the coffee, she felt more present, more acute, conscious of a faint thrumming in her skin.”
― A Memory Called Empire

“caffeine fixture
liquid buzz
kinda makes the
juices curl
inside and
out
like havin
a pair of
powdery legs
wrapped
tightly
around
your neck 鈥�
strong
and just
a little
wicked”
― Distant Visions, Again and Again
liquid buzz
kinda makes the
juices curl
inside and
out
like havin
a pair of
powdery legs
wrapped
tightly
around
your neck 鈥�
strong
and just
a little
wicked”
― Distant Visions, Again and Again
“It is probably significant that the most widespread words in the world鈥攂orrowed into virtually every language鈥攁re the names of the four great caffeine plants: coffee, cacao, cola, and tea.
[Quoting F.N. Anderson鈥檚 鈥楾he Food of China鈥� (1988).]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting F.N. Anderson鈥檚 鈥楾he Food of China鈥� (1988).]”
― The World of Caffeine

“I have been a regular coffee drinker since I was twenty-six years old.”
― Pandemic Supplements
― Pandemic Supplements
“When I have been compell鈥檇 to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv鈥檇 my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble.
[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619鈥�89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619鈥�89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
― The World of Caffeine

“Without good sleep we鈥檙e not able to operate at our best, and yet, when it comes right down to it, we typically do a lot more to stay awake than we do to get the sleep we need.”
― The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
― The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“coffee: (n.) caffeinated beverage God gave us to drink in the morning so we might resist the urge to crawl immediately back in bed.”
― The Angel's Dictionary
― The Angel's Dictionary

“Capitalism owes a third of its success to conspicuous consumption, and another third to the consumption of caffeine.”
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“It turns and that caffeine is a highly addictive substance with really unpleasant physical withdrawal symptoms, if you鈥檙e not bumping your brain chemistry to compensate, and that one of those withdrawal symptoms is an evil splitting headache. Which Farweather told me all about, in excruciating detail, except when she was sleeping, or just curled up suffering on the floor.”
― Ancestral Night
― Ancestral Night

“shower time, steam rising, going on a caffeine binge 鈥� it鈥檚 not the juice that juices me, it鈥檚 that taste and the rock and roll blaring evil and gorgeous in the morning darkness”
― Hang Gliding on X
― Hang Gliding on X

“The sugar, caffeine, stars outside鈥攁nd Winona's across from me, our knees touching under the table鈥攍oosened my tongue better than liquor would.”
― The Road to Vent Haven
― The Road to Vent Haven

“Trying to make a movie is a tawdry, soul-crushing, stress-inducing, backstabbing, sleep-deprived, caffeine-overdosed nightmare鈥攁nd that's just Tuesday.”
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“Me brewing up increasingly ridiculous and colorful sweet coffees for Seth to try. Unicorn lattes with sprinkles and peaked whipped cream horns. Chocolate-chocolate-chip mochas with lumps of half-melted Hershey's bars floating in them.”
― Love You a Latke
― Love You a Latke
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