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

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

    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

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

    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.
  • 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.

    Art   Writing   Rights  
  • It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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

  • 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.

    Party   Offering   Guitar  
  • 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.

    Country   Party   Simple  
  • 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.

    Mother   Party   Dirty  
  • Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

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

  • 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.

  • Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

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

    "A generation of artists were wiped out by Aids and we barely talk about it" by Suzanne Moore, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2016.
  • 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.

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

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

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

    Party   Night   Cocktails  
    Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.10, HarperCollins UK
  • What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  • To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

    New York   Party   People  
  • 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.

    Pain   Party   Men  
    Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”
  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

    Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Running   Jobs   Party  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  • There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.

    Party   Mean   Florida  
  • The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

    Dog   Party   Names  
    Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.128, Faber & Faber
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