Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Everyone else is just cocktails.

We're serious about this. We want to be great cocktail party chatter, a great informative read. We are not a textbook.

Alistair Cooke

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Sara Sheridan

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Mark Pincus

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

Jade Jagger

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings.

Oscar Isaac

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

Charles Price

Hagen played in tournaments as though they were cocktail parties.

Gail Sheehy

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Gail Simmons

I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

Welcome to the world's largest sit-down cocktail reception.

The piano is for live entertainment on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons - the idea being to create a kind of cocktail culture.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

Haruki Murakami

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

Al Leiter

Tom and Shirley were like Julie McCoy on the Love Boat. We'd go to their room every night for a cocktail party before dinner.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

Chelsea Handler

I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.

We know there is a toxic cocktail that results when you put Ford explorer and Firestone tires together,

It doesn't mean any more than it did last year or the year before. It's interesting cocktail conversation.

She likes to go for cocktail length dresses. She'll probably wear something a little longer for the Oscars; though not necessarily floor length.

They might switch a cocktail party from politics to science.

They do that in the foreign service all the time, but not seriously as far as I know. At the odd cocktail party, perhaps.

Jen Lancaster

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Sometimes they definitely wear them after the wedding, ... A lot of the time, they want to cut them off later on and make them into a cocktail dress or (to) wear to another event.

Sam Riley

I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

I've rarely met a cocktail I didn't like.

Bruce Davison

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

It's definitely lace for evening this spring. Saks loves lace in faded pastel colors used in cocktail and evening gowns, all in a long and lean silhouette -- no poufs.

Joanna Lumley

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

Jude Law

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Elsa Maxwell

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Kofi Annan

In already unstable societies, this cocktail of disasters is a sure recipe for more conflict,

Absolutely. I'm going to have a cocktail party, food, drink ? it's going to be full blown.