The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
I don’t have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.
My late husband’s family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential – design-make-enjoy – with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else’s hustle.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.
I generally enjoy talking with the audience – they give you so much. They’ve usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, ‘I am who I am.’
I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.
The thing to remember about Phuket is it’s very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins.
A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.
If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
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.
I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez’s ‘When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba,’ I played a young Fidel Castro.
I have not been a big fan of very sweet drinks, although the Manhattan cocktail is a favorite of mine.
I’m a huge fan of Richard Curtis – there’s real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it’s a wonderful cocktail.
Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them – it’s not my sweet spot.
My mother’s favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.
I was really into ‘Cocktail’ when I was younger – probably the most – followed by ‘Top Gun.’
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