Quotes on Espresso

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?