Cocktails Quotes

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

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

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

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

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

It's never too early for a cocktail.

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

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

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

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

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

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

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

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

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

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

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.