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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini... -- Mae West
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini. -- Nancy Kerrigan
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? -- Robert Benchley
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. -- James Thurber
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. -- Bernard DeVoto
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter. -- J. A. Konrath
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini? -- Noel Coward
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. -- Ian Fleming
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient. -- Phyllis McGinley
A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature. -- M. F. K. Fisher
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much? -- Bernard DeVoto
A martini. Shaken, not stirred. -- Sean Connery
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. -- Humphrey Bogart
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. -- Dorothy Parker
Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry. -- Johnny Carson
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. -- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. -- George Burns
A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini. -- Jackie Gleason
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The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea. -- Alice Taylor
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. -- Douglas Coupland
After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini. -- Tank Abbott
I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. -- Martin Freeman
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. -- Alec Waugh
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy. -- Noel Coward
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host. -- Dorothy Parker
I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? -- Gerald R. Ford
I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba. -- Woody Allen
There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin. -- Ogden Nash
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'. -- Nora Ephron
When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married. -- Megan Fox
The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini. -- John Ridley
We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner. -- Debi Mazar
A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it? -- Ian Fleming
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! -- George Clooney
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis. -- T. Boone Pickens
Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter. -- Luanne Rice
As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!' -- Paul Feig
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen. -- H. L. Mencken
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. -- Tom Ford
Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. -- Matt Damon
I typically have a martini. -- Rona Ambrose
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. -- Gerald R. Ford
I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini. -- George Burns
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon -- Norman Mailer
If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini. -- Eric Stoltz
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. -- Daniel Seligman
One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough. -- M. F. K. Fisher
'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea. -- Alice Taylor
I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple. -- Robert De Niro
They say that a martini is like a woman's breast. One ain't enough and three is too many. -- Chris Gayle
This is an excellent martini"?sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud. -- Herman Wouk
My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine. -- Nikki Sanderson
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini. -- Paul Desmond
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously. -- Philip Larkin
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure. -- Bob Shacochis
Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.' -- Jimmy Fallon
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me. -- William Faulkner
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Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held out that long too. -- Richelle Mead
Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.' -- Jim Gaffigan
Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini. -- Alex Riley

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