Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear… — Paz Vega Copy Share Image
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot. — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties. — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He is social, but not in large groups. "I don't go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk.… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
“Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.” — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal… — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations… — Lauren Collins Copy Share Image
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days,… — Scott MacDonald Copy Share Image
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess… — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
Im not funny. Im actually quite a boring person to meet one-on-one. That seems to shock quite a few people who I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image