Top 80 Cocktail Quotes

You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on – a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress – you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Cocktail’ happened overnight for me. I didn’t have the time to think about it, I suddenly got into films without even realising what I was doing.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they’d proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

I was born and brought up in South Mumbai. My father, Jagdeep, is a businessman and a Sindhi. My mother is half Brit and half Muslim. I am thus a cocktail of mixed blood. From the time I remember, I wanted to be an actress.

It’s still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they’re interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.

I quite often don’t have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I’d be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

When I started with ‘Cocktail,’ I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I don’t know that I ‘look up’ to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work – people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don’t agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn’t be settled on the spot.

The trick to scrambled eggs is to remove half the milk from the container and shake what’s left as hard as you can, like a cocktail shaker, before you whisk it into the eggs.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like ‘The Dinner Party’ from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it.

I’m really not into casual clothes for a cocktail party. I like to see fun people, having fun, in fun clothes.

I couldn’t imagine what it’s like to be a journalist talking about music. You’re left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.

I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.

Everyone assumes we’re always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, ‘You look so young. You don’t seem as tall!’

I make a Bloody Mary at home with a dash of fish sauce, a little bit of coconut, and some lime juice. It gives the cocktail some South Asian flair.

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I’m always wearing large cocktail rings.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It’s a cocktail and dinner. I know I’m a tired old geezer, but there you are.

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we’ll have more storms – it’s how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it’s the Moscow mule.

A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

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.

I don’t view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

A simple leather jacket… has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

My favorite bar in New York City is called Milk and Honey, a great cocktail bar.

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.

Citi Field is one of the coolest spots I’ve been to. It was so much fun to hold a cocktail party and rose ceremony there.

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

I’ve always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

I’m basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I’m good. I think I’m a very poor piano player.

We had cocktail parties and I’d stay up until 5 in the morning.

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

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.

When I first started working at MIT, back in the ’80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

When I finished ‘Cocktail,’ it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica’s mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with ‘Bajirao Mastani.’ Some films demand that.

Nothing like stopping at Balthazar in between NYFW madness. Their shrimp cocktail is delicious and healthy.

Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It’s a conversation, not a sledgehammer.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn’t look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it’s-not-over-till-it’s-over mindset.

I have completely cut out the partying but if there’s a celebration I’ll have a little cocktail.

I suppose my look, the way I play – you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens… I suppose it’s one of those cocktail mixes.

My designs are slightly subversive in their way; it can be in the cut or the colour, but they’re always obtainable: they’re not so difficult that a 40-year-old woman wanting to go to a cocktail party looking foxy and a little bit different in something well-made would be alienated by them.

If it’s a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it’s fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven’t done anything to draw attention to it. It’s been like watching Mesut Ozil drop perfect crosses on to the head of an increasingly frustrated Stephen Hawking.

My father found cocktail parties challenging.