The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea two and two for tea.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Where there's tea there's hope.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.