Good Cocktail Party Quotes

#1. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party ... Art ... is less like a cocktail party thank a tank of shark.

John Gardner

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

Billy Carter

#3. I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

Scott MacDonald

#4. Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Carl Linnaeus

#5. 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.

Shauna Niequist

#6. Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.

Lauren Myracle

#7. If you have the tendency to always fuck up, try to switch it up and fuck down.

Anthony Liccione

#8. The sobbing wind is fierce and strong; its cry is like a human wail.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#9. Where dreams may take you fathoms deep within the soul of the forest. Mists close in around your feathered visions, floating phantoms of days gone by, and days to come, their twirling tendrils tempting your thoughts blossom with the unbound less love and passion you hide within.....

Virginia Alison

#10. There are some pools that woo us, as if in courtship. Others challenge, as if yearning a feisty relationship.

Fennel Hudson

#11. A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

Arie De Geus

#12. The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

Peg Bracken

#13. The shit is not the shit, he repeated solemnly, the pigeon is the shit.

Zadie Smith

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

E.W. Howe

#15. Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

Yevgeny Zamyatin