Top 314 Cocktail Quotes & Sayings

?You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.?

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

I have completely cut out the partying but if there's a celebration I'll have a little cocktail.

A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and... an aphrodisiac.

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

A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.

Everybody likes a good cocktail.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

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

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

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

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

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it's the Moscow mule.

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

It's never too early for a cocktail.

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.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

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.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.

A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

I have not been a big fan of very sweet drinks, although the Manhattan cocktail is a favorite of mine.

I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.'

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

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.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

I was really into 'Cocktail' when I was younger - probably the most - followed by 'Top Gun.'

Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

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.

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

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

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.