Chris Blackwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

  • I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they're pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.

  • You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  • Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

  • Without coffee something’s missing

  • Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  • I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

  • Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

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