Cocktails Quotes · Page 4

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

— Jerzy Kosinski

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

— Martha Stewart

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

— Elsa Maxwell

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

— Jean Sibelius

“Signature cocktails are part creative expression and part calling card, alluding to your style as much as your handshake or favorite perfume.”

— Mark Addison

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer…

— Lauren Conrad

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

— Lorna Luft

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

— Sara Blakely

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like…

— Barbara Walters

Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of…

— Chelsea Handler

I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2.…

— Viola Davis

Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that…

— Cassandra Clare

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even…

— Haruki Murakami

Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use…

— Irma S. Rombauer

...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity…

— Dave Barry

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We…

— Edgar Guest

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the…

— Raymond Chandler

My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface…

— Zoe Saldana

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to…

— Adolphe Menjou

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are…

— Marie Dressler

“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a…

— Renata Adler

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered…

— Klaus Topfer

Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

— Aya Nakahara

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after…

— Fred Allen

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

— Lance Armstrong

Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in…

— Jimmy Fallon

“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.”

— Brian Azzarello

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with…

— Madonna Ciccone

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

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

— Geoffrey Moore

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

— E. W. Howe

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

— Ted Allen

I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a…

— Sam Riley

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

— Bret Easton Ellis

This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and... an aphrodisiac.

— Zoe Helene

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

— Vance Havner

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

— Alexander McQueen

Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big…

— Anonymous