Martini Quotes - Page 3

• Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Beach, President, Hawaii

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• A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Dry, Vodka, Mediums

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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• I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, New Year, Witty

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• You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Kissing, Earth

  'The Hour' (1951)

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• I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

  Studs Terkel

  Art, Hate, Believe

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• Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Adventure, Writing

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• When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

  Megan Fox

  Husband, Stupid, Eye

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

  Christine Baranski

  Lunch, Drink

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

  Ben Folds

  Average, Vintage, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Book, School

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• Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

  Herb Caen

  Three, Enough, Breasts

  "Breasts, Martinis and Hitchens" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. May 6, 2003.

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• I typically have a martini.

  Rona Ambrose

  "Rona Ambrose is on a mission to give Canadians more Canadian beer". Interview with Sarah Boesveld, www.chatelaine.com. August 18, 2016.

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• In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

  George Burns

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Wine, Southern, Comfort

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

  Douglas Coupland

  Three, Machines, World

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• I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Thinking, Mind

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• After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

  Tank Abbott

  Mma, Opponents, Hospitals

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• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Scotch, Two, Brave

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• I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

  Daniel Craig

  Vodka, Knows

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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• 'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

  Alice Taylor

  Tea, May, Want

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• Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Jobs, Drinking, Advertising

  Source: collider.com

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• The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

  Philip Larkin

  Drinking, Giving, Musical

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• I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

  Maria Menounos

  Swimming, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.

  Adam Reed

  Car, Bars, Gloves

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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