I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.
When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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.
It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something you wear out in public.
I’m a dilettante and get paid for it. I have just about enough knowledge on any subject to last for a one hour radio show or a cocktail party whichever comes first.
Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.
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.
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 person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?
I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.
I do love pink cocktails.
I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.
The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.
I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way.
Citi Field is one of the coolest spots I've been to. It was so much fun to hold a cocktail party and rose ceremony there.
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.
And after, you know, having the old chicken or whatever it is they bring around and a couple of cocktails, you turn to the person sitting next to you and say, you know, you going home, then?
Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.
