Laura Bohannan quotes

Laura Bohannan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”
“I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.”
“For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.”
“We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.”
“Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”
“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”
“There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.”
“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
“Itâ€™s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But Iâ€™m not sure Iâ€™m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.”

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