Taste Quotes - Page 13

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.

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

This soup tastes like windows

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.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Nudity is undignified and an error of taste

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.