Taste Quotes - Page 25

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

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

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

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.

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.