Cocktail Parties Quotes - Page 2

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

  Rand Paul

  Party, Ebola, Cocktails

  Rand Paul: Ebola is 'not like AIDS'" by Ashley Killough, Justin Peligri, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2014.

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• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Offering, Guitar

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• I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

  Kurt Busiek

  Party, Views, Tools

  "Mtv Geek Interview: Kurt Busiek And Brent Anderson At The Barcelona Comicon!". Interview with Janna O'shea, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

  Victoria Wood

  Party, People, Luck

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• I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Writing, Rights

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Eight, Interesting

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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

  Hal Boyle

  Party, Simple, Cocktails

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• I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

  Zoë Heller

  Party, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  John Podhoretz

  Party, Cocktails, Firsts

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• Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

  Maureen Dowd

  Party, Talking, Instagram

  "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Years, Justice

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

  Amy Sedaris

  Brother, Children, Women

  "Refined meets irreverent". Interview with Craig Nakano, articles.latimes.com. November 09, 2006.

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• Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Children, Party

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• so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

  John Irving

  Mother, Party, Dirty

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• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Party, Simple

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Pain, Party, Men

  Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”

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

  Louise Rennison

  Party, Night, Cocktails

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

  Dick Cavett

  Party, Thinking, People

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• the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Talking, Looks

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• I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

  Roxane Gay

  Party, Ideas, Family And Friends

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

  Shauna Niequist

  Party, Love You, Love Is

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• Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Party, Lunch, Clothes

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• It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Party, Men, Dating

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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