Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

... 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

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.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

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

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

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

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.

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