A Quote by Roxane Gay

I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
American - Writer

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

With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.

Ree Drummond

I don't ever remember a dinner party, a cocktail party in our house ever. It was always family.

Jean Kennedy Smith

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

Teresa Medeiros

I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.

Johnny Miller

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

Zoë Heller

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

Kurt Busiek

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

E. W. Howe

In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

John Gardner

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.