Top 30 Hors D'oeuvre Quotes

#1. A big Russian lady, who seemed to be the household cook, supervised the making of zakuski
Russian hors d'oeuvres, which unfortunately didn't include pigs-in-a-blanket. What kind of party is this?

Nelson DeMille

#2. I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Paul Nurse

#3. Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Sally Ride

#4. Life is like a giant hors d'oeuvre tray in that it is to be savored.

Jack Fitzgerald

#5. When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

Lea Michele

#6. Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Philip Larkin

#7. I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

Carrie Brownstein

#8. My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jane Fonda

#9. We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Francis Ford Coppola

#10. Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Blaise Pascal

#11. London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.

Alain Ducasse

#12. I want you," he says. "You said you didn't know what I wanted from you. I'm telling you. I want you. I want you to be mine. That's all I know for sure.

Rachel Robinson

#13. You are no stronger than your belief system.

T.D. Jakes

#14. There is nothing outside of the text.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

Jacques Derrida

#15. You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre ... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

Nadia Giosia

#16. Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile.
"Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me?
We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings.
Anyone get you a gin yet?

Jeaniene Frost

#17. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Ray Lewis

#19. War is, in my divine opinion, even worse than politics." "Some say the two are the same, Your Grace." "Nonsense. War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. Remind me to show you the latest e-mail from Courtney," he said now, kicking at a rock on the sidewalk. "You won't believe how many different incorrect ways she spelled hors d'oeuvres within the span of a single paragraph.

Aimee Agresti

#22. Tyler seriously considered fabricating an outbreak of salmonella in the hors d'oeuvres and an impending locust plague, either of which would require everyone to leave now.

Joey W. Hill

#23. If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#24. Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Hector Hugh Munro

#25. If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

#26. Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

Neil Gaiman

#27. Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

Sally Schneider

#28. I feel like an hors deurve waiting to happen.

Cody Lundin

#29. Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.

Gioachino Rossini

#30. so heavy with sorrow , so full of pain

AvaViolet

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