Appetizers Quotes

• While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dessert, Eating, Concerned

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.71, Hay House, Inc

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• The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wings, Meals, Buffalo

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.194, Crown Archetype

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• Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Dessert, Yeah

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.194, Crown Archetype

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• By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.

  Gertrude Berg

  Long, People, Meals

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• Whenever you go out to eat you gotta get the appetizer. 'Cause the appetizer's just an excuse for an extra meal. You're always like "Lets see, I will start with the 80 buffalo wings...and do you have a low-cal blue cheese? 'Cause I don't wanna fill up too much."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Blue

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• I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Thinking, People, I Can

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Erotic, Curiosity, Meals

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.

  Lee Clow

  Buffets, Should, Ads

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• Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

  Coolio

  Food, People, Cooking

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• My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Life Changing, Able

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• I'm a full-on appetizer kind of guy. I'm a Lunchables fanatic, too. I like anything tiny that you can make in front of you and eat. I'm fascinated by that. I don't know why but it's something I've always had.

  Charlie Barnett

  Guy, Tiny, Kind

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• I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow,
  these are really great appetizers. I haven't
  even considered what I'm going to order
  for the full entree meal yet.'

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Order, Wow

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• When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nice, Subpoenas, Should

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Couple, Kissing, Progress

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• There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

  Max Beckmann

  Hate, I Hate, Sentimentality

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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• My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

  Gayle Forman

  Heartache, Feelings, Stomach

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• This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Tired, Return, Drink

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• There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

  Edie Brickell

  Hate, I Hate, Sentimentality

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• Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Drinking, Whiskey, Wonderful

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  Ina Garten

  Party, Coffee, Home

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• What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.

  Doug Stanhope

  Three, Sitting, Clubs

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• I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to Adrian Oh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & Adrian I slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth. Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell

  Katie MacAlister

  Stupid, Angel, Kissing

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