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
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 Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me. — Aya Nakahara Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks,… — Michelle Tea 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
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about… — Robertson Davies 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
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
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when… — Sylvia Rivera Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image