Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

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

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

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

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

... 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.

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.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

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

Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

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

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Reality is an acquired taste.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

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.

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.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.