Cocktail Quotes - page 4

There in Rangoon I realized that the gods were enemies, just like God, of the poor human being. Gods in alabaster extended like white whales, gods gilded like spikes, serpent gods entwining the crime of being born, naked and elegant buddhas smiling at the cocktail party of empty eternity like Christ on his horrible cross, all of them capable of anything, of imposing on us their heaven, all with torture or pistol to purchase piety or burn our blood, fierce gods made by men to conceal their cowardice, and there it was all like that, the whole earth reeking of heaven, and heavenly merchandise. (Pablo Neruda)
One revolution is just like one cocktail -- it gets you organized for the next. View quote
Will Rogers
I was on par with the Creator of the Universe there in the dark in the cocktail lounge. I shrunk the Universe to a ball exactly one light-year in diameter. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes. View quote
Shane Warne
I'm sipping on an oxygen cocktail with an ambulance chaser. View quote
Tod A
I violate the Prohibition law, sure, Who doesn't? The only difference is that I take more chances than the man who drinks a cocktail before dinner and a flock of highballs after it. View quote
Al Capone
There's a big cocktail party on Martha's Vineyard. Someone comes up to this writer, I think it's Joseph Heller, and says, "Joe, see that guy over there? He's a hedge fund manager, and he made more money yesterday than you made on all the books you have ever published.” Heller looks over, pauses, and says, "Yeah, but I have something he'll never have: enough.”. View quote
Joseph Heller