When you have a person who walks into a cocktail party, and within five minutes everybody knows they are a survivor of 9-11 - that's not a good sign, ... The person with strong resilience accepts the trauma as part of their life_but it is just a part of their life. They have a life, a self, that goes beyond that trauma. Al Siebert More Al Siebert Quotes 0
Neuroscientists call this auditory scene analysis. It's really very similar to the cocktail party effect. Andrew H. Bass More Andrew H. Bass Quotes 0
The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring. Brooks Atkinson American Journalist More Brooks Atkinson Quotes 0
The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for dinner. Charles Smith More Charles Smith Quotes 0
We're serious about this. We want to be great cocktail party chatter, a great informative read. We are not a textbook. Chris Johns More Chris Johns Quotes 0
You can have a wonderful cocktail party, great music and dancing, serve hors d'oeuvres and cake. Diane Forden More Diane Forden Quotes 0
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil. Elsa Maxwell American More Elsa Maxwell Quotes 0
The legacy carriers have a real disconnect with their passengers. Try to start a conversation at a cocktail party about how much you love your old-line carrier and see how long it takes someone to throw a canapé at you. Fred Reid More Fred Reid Quotes 0
Absolutely. I'm going to have a cocktail party, food, drink ? it's going to be full blown. John Cumisky More John Cumisky Quotes 0
She goes to a cocktail party that's a sea of little black dresses and it's get boring. So she comes in with this little opulent couture pastel complexion cocktail, and they're so charming. Mark Badgley More Mark Badgley Quotes 0
Desperate Housewives. If an opportunity arises at a cocktail party [to discuss science] they'll engage. Mike Hess More Mike Hess Quotes 0
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it. Peg Bracken More Peg Bracken Quotes 0
The basic advantage [to an annulment] is that at a cocktail party when the guy asks if you were ever married, you can say no. Raoul Felder More Raoul Felder Quotes 0