Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

Taste the joy That springs from labor.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.