Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party. Votes: 3
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street. Votes: 3
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Votes: 3
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil Votes: 3
We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning. Votes: 3
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. Votes: 3
Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it. Votes: 3
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. Votes: 3
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list. Votes: 3
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. Votes: 3
We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. Votes: 3
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. Votes: 3
But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines. Votes: 3
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples. Votes: 3
There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do. Votes: 3
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. Votes: 3
My father found cocktail parties challenging. Votes: 0
Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked. Votes: 0
A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan. Votes: 0
Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties? Votes: 0
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ... Votes: 0
During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it. Votes: 0
I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends. Votes: 0
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors. Votes: 0
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.
My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before. Votes: 3 Deepika Padukone
Parties are a cruel kind of fun. Votes: 3 Caryl Churchill