Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

A steak needs fat to taste great.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.

Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.