Anyone know how long Starbucks has been putting quotes on its hot beverage to-go cups? I swear, I never noticed them before today. Granted, I'm usually not completely coherent until I have consumed said cup of coffee, so maybe they've been there all along. Anyhow, the quote I got on my cup is this:
"If you want to cheat death, it is not how much you earn or how good you look. It's in every small act of kindness you share with someone else. That is how you live on."
- Mitch Albom, radio host and author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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So I got to thinking...if they asked me to find a few quotes to put on a Starbucks cup, what quotes would I choose? Here they are. In no particular order:
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
—Austrian founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
—Author Elbert Hubbard
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself."
—Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein
"When women get depressed they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."
—Comedienne Elaine Boosler
"An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'll have someone to look up to."
—Hearst newspaperman Gene Fowler
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them."
—Author and historian Catherine Drinker Bowen
"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know."
—French actress Mistinguette
"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever."
—Late night TV host David Letterman
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And I just noticed the disclaimer on the bottom of the cup:
"This is the author's opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks. To read more or respond, go to www.starbucks.com/wayiseeit."
"If you want to cheat death, it is not how much you earn or how good you look. It's in every small act of kindness you share with someone else. That is how you live on."
- Mitch Albom, radio host and author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
So I got to thinking...if they asked me to find a few quotes to put on a Starbucks cup, what quotes would I choose? Here they are. In no particular order:
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
—Austrian founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
—Author Elbert Hubbard
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself."
—Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein
"When women get depressed they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."
—Comedienne Elaine Boosler
"An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'll have someone to look up to."
—Hearst newspaperman Gene Fowler
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them."
—Author and historian Catherine Drinker Bowen
"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know."
—French actress Mistinguette
"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever."
—Late night TV host David Letterman
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And I just noticed the disclaimer on the bottom of the cup:
"This is the author's opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks. To read more or respond, go to www.starbucks.com/wayiseeit."
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