Highball Quotes & Sayings

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. — Jonathan Carroll

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything. — Aldous Huxley

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Mark Twain

It is the dark, hard, tobacco-starved, headachey, sour-stomached, middle of the day, a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them know it, many about now are already onto the second or third pint or highball glass, which produces a certain desperate aura here. — Thomas Pynchon

No matter what happens - never give up a hole ... In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast. — Sam Snead

I hate to tell you this, but it's not my birthday. Do I still get the present? ~ Michael McCade — Samanthe Beck

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life. — Andre Dubus

In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences for her country. On the international stage there was no better survivor. At home her achievement can only be judged with hindsight. A combination of good sense and longevity settled the church, and it was no fault of hers that confessional issues became so divisive forty years after her death. She gave her country pride, and set its commercial development on a course that was eventually to be spectacularly successful; for that she deserves more credit than she is usually given. — David Loades

Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship. — Kim Chandler McDonald

We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us! — Leo Robin

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. — Natasha Bedingfield