"Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance."

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Source : "In the drink" by Victoria Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2004.

Claudia Roden

#Coffee Quotes #Fleeting Quotes #Moments Quotes

“CNN has a thing called You Choose the News. Y'know what CNN? I'm turning you on because I don't know the news. I was hoping you could help me.”
“He showed the words â€œchocolate cakeâ€ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. â€œGuiltâ€ was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: â€œcelebration.”
“My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.”
“Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.”
“America needs to be secure at home and abroad.”
“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.”

Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.351, Penguin UK
“The new limitations are the human ones of perception.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, December 13, 1996.
“Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.”

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