Barista Quotes:

I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!

- Andrew Zimmern

topic: Barista, Parlor, Slayer, Amazing Places

What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

topic: Coffee, Soul, Black, Barista

If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for world peace, but we have to assume that in the great basket of goodness maybe that's one little micron or one little neutron that you've put in there.

- George Saunders

topic: Nice, Coffee, Littles, Coffee Shop, Barista

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Sorry, Coffee, Sea, Barista, Sea Shell

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

topic: Real, Coffee, Eye, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

- David Lynch

topic: Coffee, Boys, Espresso, Instant Coffee, Barista

My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.

- Debra Granik

source: "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

topic: People, Clerks, World, Barista, Metropolis

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.

- Mark Hart

topic: Atheist, Coffee, Thinking, Barista

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Coffee, Airplane, Champion, Barista, Trays

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

- David Levithan

topic: Odds, Order, Eight, Barista

Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

- Peter Thiel

source: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

topic: Photography, Optimistic, Player, Allergies, Barista

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

- Ken Fox

topic: Badass, Coffee, Espresso, Setups, Barista

Brighid’s eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete with the Morrigan’s red flashes. Maybe I should try to figure out how to make my eyes flash green so I could freak out the baristas at Starbucks. “No, you foolish mortal,” I’d say as my eyes glowed, “I ordered a nonfat latte.

- Kevin Hearne

source: Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.163, Del Rey

topic: Eye, Blue, Flames, Lattes, Barista

I remember after one of my dreadful moments on Real Time, where I was ganged up on by everybody, and I went to Starbucks the next day, and the typical liberal tattooed and pierced barista said "Hey, you were on Bill Maher last night. I'm a liberal, but I really admired that you had the courage to stand up to that rude audience."

- Andrew Breitbart

source: Source: www.newsbusters.org

topic: Real, Night, Next Day, Barista