Gimlets Quotes

• The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

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  Carrie Brownstein

  Sexy   Arms   Pounds  

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• A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

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  Raymond Chandler

  Real   Rose   Juice  

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.20, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

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  Nikolai Gogol

  Eye   Let It Go   Finishing  

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.93, Vintage

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• I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

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  Lea Salonga

  Gimlets   Vodka   Sweetness  

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory.... The self-described atheist has become a deity... but the inquiry's findings may cause the Armstrong faithful to ask, Was the miracle a mirage?

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  Selena Roberts

  Atheist   Eye   Self  

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• Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Success   Mind   Gimlets  

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• Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

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  Marcus Aurelius

  Substance   Gimlets   Individual  

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

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  Charles Saatchi

  Memories   Eye   House  

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “Babble”, p.152

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