Great Cocktail Quotes

#1. ...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...

Nigella Lawson

#2. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

Barry Ritholtz

#3. 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.

Billy Collins

#4. Ms. Ginsberg. I wonder if you can help me. I have a legal question," Felicity Mason said. Great. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin to get away from Cole.

N.M. Silber

#5. Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.

Michael Connelly

#6. Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?
Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Idries Shah

#7. She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.

Michelle Latiolais

#8. You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

Jesse Ventura

#9. My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

Amy Bloom

#10. I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.

Ronda Rousey

#11. I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Barbara Cook

#12. Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.

Letitia Baldrige

#13. Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.

Clemence Poesy

#15. Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.

Lily James

#16. How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?

Herman Melville

#17. Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail.

Chelsea Handler

#18. She smelled like vanilla spice, or pumpkin pie, or something sweet yet sinful.

Genevieve Dewey

#19. She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope.

Joe Hill

#20. Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.

Nirmala Srivastava

#21. Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ...

Phyllis McGinley

#22. I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.

Melissa De La Cruz

#23. Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

Barbara Walters

#24. It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.

Yekaterina Samutsevich