#arty

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #dinner #dinner party #drink #face

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#american people #become #fact #fairness #fiction

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. ↗

— Ina Garten

#everyone #far #i #killer #large

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bedtime #coffee #course #definitely #dessert

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. ↗

— Ina Garten

#choose #cocktail #different #different things #end

My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. ↗

— Ina Garten

#around #big #bowls #corn #day

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. ↗

— Ina Garten

#anything #carve #cooked #everything #fun

And I don't know what I'd do at a fraternity party. All that might be a little lost on me. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#i #know #little #lost #me

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something. ↗

— Boy George

#been #bit #contact #could #had

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. ↗

— Susan George

#anything #been #coming #done #feel