Cocktails Quotes - Page 7

• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Tea

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.

  Peter Sellers

  Party, Should Have, Feet

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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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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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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

  Lin Yutang

  Party, Cocktail Parties, Interest

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Organization, Community

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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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• The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

  Marie Dressler

  Regret, Past, Love Is

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• In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

  Barbara Holland

  Fashion, Sophisticated, Metropolitan

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.135, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

  Frank Muir

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

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• There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

  E. W. Howe

  Party, Food, People

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• When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Food, Heart

  1951 The Hour.

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• My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake.

  Joan Rivers

  Perfect, Meals, Would Be

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• I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Home, Thinking, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

  Johnny Carson

  Running, Jobs, Party

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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

  Maurice Bowra

  Awkward, Hours

  Cecil Maurice Bowra (2005). “New Bats in Old Belfries: Or Some Loose Tiles”

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• 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.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, Oysters, Shrimp

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• In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

  Graydon Carter

  Book, Joy, Age

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Freedom, War

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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

  Bernard DeVoto

  Occupation, Evening, Hours

  1951 The Hour.

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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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• For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce.

  Chuck Hughes

  Oysters, Cooking, Style

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

  John Travolta

  Mother, Dad, Feelings

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• I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

  Judy Blundell

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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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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