Taste Quotes - Page 38

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

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.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

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.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.