"Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper."

-- Alistair Cooke

#Cocktails Quotes #Accepted Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.”
“Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own”
“There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.”
“In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.”
“...playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.”
“I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.”
“Dew depends not on Parliament.”
“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”

Source : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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