Cocktails Quotes - Page 11

• I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Dad, Italian, Dialect

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hunger Strike, Clubs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Ted Allen

  Gambling, Casinos, Buying

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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 fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

  Peg Bracken

  Party, People, Alive

  Peg Bracken (1964). “I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book”

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• So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Thinking, Paris

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Running, Cooking Classes

  "What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 11, 2011.

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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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• I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Boys, Oedipus, Molotov Cocktail

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.88, Anchor

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

  Vance Havner

  Order, Alcohol, Church

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• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

  Sara Sheridan

  Lonely, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth" by Sara Sheridan, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. April 24, 2013.

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• A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?

  E. Jean Carroll

  Sexy, Dog, Couple

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• 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!

  Sylvia Rivera

  Molotov Cocktail, Revolution, Remember

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• A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

  Sebastian Junger

  Air, Molotov Cocktail, Tanks

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Culture

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• I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

  Vera Wang

  Girl, Lunch, Likes

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• Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

  Abbie Hoffman

  Rocks, Random Violence, Molotov Cocktail

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• I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

  Robert Osborne

  Party, Successful, Dining

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

  Jeffrey Stepakoff

  Memories, Powerful, Emotion

  Jeffrey Stepakoff (2011). “The Orchard: A Novel”, p.240, Macmillan

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• Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Oysters, Joy

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