Appetizers Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

Edie Brickell

Hate, I Hate, Sentimentality

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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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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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For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

Nicole Eggert

Junk, Three, Weight

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