#cocktail

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#cocktail #easy #find #hour #i

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#audible #cocktail #music #wallpaper

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

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#cocktail #fundamentalism #ideology #islamic #lethal

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cocktails #destroyed #dinner #even #friends

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

#coping #drinking-your-troubles-away #happy-hour #loss #lost-love

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#millions #people #sick #upon #you

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cocktail #cop #culture #down #guns

I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses. ↗

— Todd English

#cocktails #couple #courses #down #eat

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#cocktail #everyone #hand #means #possible