Quotes - Jen (jennaluna) (Portland, OR) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

#2

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: arthur-dent, humor, tea

421 likes

#3

“Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

tags: tea

167 likes

#4

“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
― Frances Hardinge

tags: tea, twitter-quotes

171 likes

#5

“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

tags: tea

120 likes

#6

“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

tags: domesticity, prettiness, tea, victorian-society, women

155 likes

#7

“While there is tea, there is hope.”
― Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.

tags: hope, tea

134 likes

#8

“Tea is the elixir of life.”
― Eisai, Kissa Yojoki How to Stay Healthy by Drinking Tea

tags: tea

48 likes

#9

“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side ..."

(Englishman in New York)”
― Sting, Nothing Like the Sun

tags: coffee, food, likings, preferences, tea, toast

35 likes

#10

“I read the tea leaves
as if they were words
left over from a conversation
between two cups.”
― Kenny Knight, The Honicknowle Book of the Dead

tags: tea

11 likes

#11

“When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of heaven rises in my sleeves, and blows my cares away.”
― Lo Tung

tags: peace, tea

3 likes

#12

“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.”
― Kakuzo Okahura, The Book of Tea

tags: culture, japan, tea

6 likes

#13

“Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.”
― Dharlene Marie Fahl

tags: clarity-of-thought, elixir, soul, tea, tea-sage

5 likes

#14

“Home is where the tea is.”
― Js Devivre, The Tea Traveller's Constant Companion: Oregon

tags: tea

8 likes

#15

“drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

tags: peaceful, reflection, tea

11 likes

#16

“Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.”
― Russell T. Davies

tags: 10th-doctor, british, doctor-who, tea, the-christmas-invasion

21 likes

#17