Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Six|| The one with vodka and lemonade

Theme: Parties—the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.

1. ''I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.'' -Ron White    

2. “Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

3. “I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.” -Kristin Cashore, Fire

4. “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.” -George Orwell, 1984

5. “The more bleach in the bedsheets, the greater Chastity's impulse to roll around in them. A party would be thrown, she decided, the kind that would tell a small story in the contents of the dustpan the next morning. Detached sequins and mint leaves muddled by high heels, shrimp tales mixed in with a few shards of broken glass, a crust of bread. She rolled in her bleached sheets until they wrapped around her like a storm, and she fell asleep in the eye of it.” -Amelia Gray, AM/PM

6. “.....and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product.” -John Steinbeck

7. “Me? I go wherever the wind blows…and wherever the whiskey shots are half price.” -Nicki Elson, Three Daves

8. “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.” -Criss Jami

9. “It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.” -Martin Cruz Smith

10. “I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.” -Tom Leveen, Party

11. “There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not needing - the constant jostle and noise of a party or bar or... whatever.” -Charles de Lint, Jack of Kinrowan

12. “I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.” -Andy Warhol

13. “He’s dead. I don’t celebrate who he was, but who he isn’t. He isn’t alive, and that is a great reason to party.
” -Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise

14. “The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.” -Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

15. “Always take a banana to a party.” -Steven Moffat

16. “I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit? Come, let’s party. Drinks are on me tonight.
” -Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise

17. “To every party, I bring my own booze. No need to help me carry it, as I walk in with it already in my bloodstream.
” -Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise

18. “The people who say New York never sleeps must have never visited Las Vegas.” -Michelle Madow, The Secret Diamond Sisters

19. “Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. 

“Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. -Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

20. “I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

21. “Already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.” 

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby