Cocktail Dresses Quotes:

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Party, Holiday, Dresses, Blazers, Cocktail Dresses

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

- Joan Collins

source: "Truly Outrageous: Joan Collins on The Power Suit". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 10, 2009.

topic: Design, Dresses, Pieces, Cocktail Dresses

I don't have a nightlife. People say, "You need these cocktail dresses for all the receptions" - except I don't go, because we have no idea if we are going to be in session. But my husband has encouraged me to, shall we say, keep up with fashion.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Fashion, Husband, Nightlife, Cocktail Dresses

I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.

- Lisa Lutz

source: Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, High Heels, Work Out, First Date, Cocktail Dresses

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

- John Irving

topic: Mother, Party, Dirty, Cocktail Parties, Cocktail Dresses

Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!

- Sheridan Smith

topic: Girl, Boys, Dresses, Like A Boy, Cocktail Dresses

When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton, “The Other”

topic: Sleep, Heart, Kissing, Cocktail Dresses

When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

- Tim Gunn

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

topic: Memorable, Austin, Dresses, Cocktail Dresses, Project Runway

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Differences, People, Pieces, Cocktail Dresses, Racks

Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

- Farrah Fawcett

topic: Dresses, Toilet Seat, Shy, Cocktail Dresses