Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.

Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb) Ooo, I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi) I think I’m never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb)

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.

... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.