Cocktail Banter Quotes & Sayings

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?"
Nora: "No, thanks."
Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one. — Dashiell Hammett

When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes. — Christian Cota

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work. — Brad Listi

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham

When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter.
"You're writing a book about that? Wow, what fun!"
Yes, it was fun, but it was also serious history. Pretty women do not fit into what we have come to think of as serious history. Real history covers topics like Lincoln, World War II, or, frankly, anything involving powerful white males. — Victoria Vantoch

You can't judge an entire race based on a few individuals. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There's an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she's older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn't gone through what I've gone through. — Zoe Cruz

Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something. — Nathan Myhrvold

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger

That's how fear grows. When you keep it locked inside and never let it out, it starts to eat you alive. — Jason Segel

People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray. — Amanda Grace