Life is full of chances we don’t want to take, vacations we don’t want to go on, parties we don’t want to attend, and dinners we want to skip. Sometimes you have to force yourself...

He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.

I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties.

I celebrate my birthday in ways not seen this side of the Old Testament. I celebrate my life like the Dead Sea, and my party is a BYOP (bring your own plague) event.

All week, there’s been a lot of parties.

I am a social outcast, shunned by society. Nobody ever invites me to parties. My own birthday avoids me, and only comes around every two years.

Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and–and–partying doesn’t make them...

Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it’s for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don’t...

I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don’t go to the showbiz parties.

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom’s night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke...

I didn’t go to parties or anything like that.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Jeg kommer netop nu fra et Selskab, hvor jeg var Sjælen; Vittigheder strømmede ud fra min Mund, alle loe, beundrede mig – men jeg gik, ja den Tankestreg bør være ligesaa lang som Jordbanens Radier...

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes because belief in it is slackening, the social domain falls prey to passions. The ensuing vacuum is filled by...

I actually didn’t have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I’ve just never really been into parties.

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: “party”. Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public...

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed...

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don’t think so much.

We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.

I don’t go out and go to parties and do all of that.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or...

I don’t deal in pretentious kids’ parties.

In the morning you were never violently sorry– you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days...

Um, hello, have you seen the movie Carrie?

I’m not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there’s always some totally drunk girl who thinks you’re...

America’s industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John...

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

These things excite me so,’ she whispered. ‘If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my...

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and...

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.

Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is...

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

We’re working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He’s always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn’t have to greet them.Then...

Even though I believe birthday parties should be given, not taken, I wish someone would take all of mine and hide them on the other side of eternity.

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman...

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and...

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

No, it’s an echo chamber of sycophants and I can’t listen to some bimbo recite her newest purchases while pretending I don’t want to throw myself from the roof.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.